Liberation Quotes - Page 32

• Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next, to long intensely for liberation. The very intensity of longing will guide you; you need no other guide.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Long, Sorrow

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• Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Success, Congratulations, Phrases

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• Transformation is only valid if it is carried out with the people, not for them. Liberation is like a childbirth, and a painful one. The person who emerges is a new person: no longer either oppressor or oppressed, but a person in the process of achieving freedom. It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

  Paulo Freire

  People, Transformation, Painful

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• A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.

  Stanislav Grof

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Opportunity

  Stanislav Grof (1998). “The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness”, p.229, SUNY Press

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• I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand unremembered moments produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people. There was no particular day on which I said, Henceforth I will devote myself to the liberation of my people; instead, I simply found myself doing so, and could not do otherwise.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Commitment, Fighting

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• Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the coercion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. It stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals.

  Emma Goldman

  Government, Order, Mind

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• It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. (1974)

  Stanley Milgram

  Perception, Puppets, May

  "The Social Dimensions Of Law And Justice In Contemporary India". Book by V. R. Krishna Iyer, 1979.

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• I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Letter to Guy H. Raner Jr., September 28, 1949.

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• The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Justice, Poverty

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• The grateful outreaching of your mind in thankful praise to the Supreme is a liberation or expenditure of force; it cannot fail to reach that to which it is addressed, and the reaction is an instantaneous movement towards you.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Gratitude, Grateful, Mind

  Wallace D. Wattles, General Press (2016). “The Science of Getting Rich”, p.24, GENERAL PRESS

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• Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who 'forgives' you--out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice. The price you must pay for your own liberation through another's sacrifice is that you in turn must be willing to liberate in the same way, irrespective of the consequences to yourself.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Sacrifice, Forgiving, Done

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• Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Life, Natural, Sadistic

  Wilhelm Reich (1948). “Entdeckung Des Orgons”

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• Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Inspiration, Mind, Bondage

  "I am That". Book by Nisargadatta Maharaj, p. 206, 1973.

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• Glorification of the 'natural' is part of the ideology which protects an unnatural society in its struggle against liberation.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Struggle, Gay, Natural

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.242, Routledge

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• We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender and even if, which I do not for the moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the struggle until in God's good time the New World with all its power and might, sets forth to the liberation and rescue of the Old.

  Winston Churchill

  Memorial Day, Beach, Military

  Winston Churchill's speech to the House of Commons, history.hanover.edu. June 4, 1940.

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• In love at one of its poles you find the personal, and at the other the impersonal. At one you have the positive assertion — Here I am; at the other the equally strong denial — I am not. Without this ego what is love? And again, with only this ego how can love be possible?
  Bondage and liberation are not antagonistic in love. For love is most free and at the same time most bound. If God were absolutely free there would be no creation. The infinite being has assumed unto himself the mystery of finitude. And in him who is love the finite and the infinite are made one.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Strong, Love Is

  "The Complete Works of Rabindranath Tagore".

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• Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands.

  Ahmed Yassin

  War, Land, Liberty

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• Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

  Carl Jung

  Real, Feelings, Painful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.335, Princeton University Press

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• Interviewer: What would you say to a woman in this country who assumes she is no longer oppressed, who believes women's liberation has been achieved? el Saadawi: Well I would think she is blind. Like many people who are blind to gender problems, to class problems, to international problems. She's blind to what's happening to her.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Country, Believe, Thinking

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• the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness; without your dancing through the years that had no beat.

  Alice Walker

  Determination, Prayer, Kindness

  Alice Walker (2013). “Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems”, p.96, New World Library

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• Some hours after eating this dish [lièvre à la royale, which contains 20 cloves of garlic and twice that quantity of shallots], there is a peculiar sensation of liberation in the head. and it is sensation of smell.

  Patience Gray

  Food, Smell, Peculiar

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• According to some liberation theologians atheism is not the cause of the conflict between Christianity and Marxism, but is rather the link between them.

  Ernesto Cardenal

  Atheism, Links, Causes

  Source: www.crisismagazine.com

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• The most exciting thing about women's liberation is that this century will be able to take advantage of talent and potential genius that have been wasted because of taboos.

  Helen Reddy

  Social Taboos, Justice, Diversity

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• The Soul which is approaching its' liberation, as it looks back over past lives... down the vistas of the centuries along which it has slowly been climbing,... is able to see there the way in which the bonds were made, the causes which set it in motion. It is able to see how many of those causes have worked themselves out and... how many... are still working themselves out.

  Annie Besant

  Karma, Past, Climbing

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• Change that does not lead to liberation from fear, greed and delusion is not wholesome.  Furthermore, any change that does not yield more compassion and loving-kindness for yourself and others is a waste of precious life energy.

  Phillip Moffitt

  Kindness, Compassion, Yield

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