731 Quotes About Liberation
- Author Erica Armstrong Dunbar
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When asked if she was sorry to have left the Washingtons, particularly because her life had been so difficult and sorrow-filled since she'd escaped to New Hampshire, she replied with strength and the calm wisdom of a woman who'd had the courage to do what was morally right: "No, I am free, and have, I trust, been made a child of God by the means.
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- Author Erica Armstrong Dunbar
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As Burwell prattles on, Ona finds her resolve. When he finally finishes speaking, she looks him straight in the eyes. Her response is final, and fierce. "I am free now and choose to remain so.
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- Author Dada Bhagwan
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How can you consider happiness to be in the worldly life (sansaar)? You have just (falsely) believed it to be happiness. Happiness lies in having freedom. There should be no superior above you. As long as you have a ‘boss’ above you, till then how can you call it happiness?
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- Author Shunya
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Society is a prison where prisoners are keeping each other hostage.
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- Author Dada Bhagwan
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Science (vignan) means that which frees one just by ‘knowing’. Nothing needs to be done. Knowledge that keeps working on its own is called science.
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- Author Goitsemang Mvula
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Be reminded that when you see a branch on the ground that you won't witness its fruitfulness without its roots, the tree. So don't expect growth from people who leave you, continue to be the tree that you are, weather and grow, and let them go.
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- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
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The greatest jail break in all of history occurred on Easter morning. Therefore, we must remember that whatever our prisons might be and however impenetrable they might appear, your jail break is just a prayer away.
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- Author Dada Bhagwan
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This is indeed the nature of worldly life, isn’t it? We anticipate happiness in old age. But in old age we develop severe back pain, which will not let us sit peacefully. That is why people are searching for moksha [ultimate liberation]; once we reach our own place, there will be no problems, right?
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- Author Umberto Eco
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Literature says something and, at the same time, it denies what it has said; it doesn’t destroy signs, it make them play and it plays them. If and whether literature is liberation from the power of the given language depends on the nature of this power.
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