Bondage Quotes
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I see shining fish struggling within tight nets, while I hear orioles singing carefree tunes. Even trivial creatures know the difference between freedom and bondage. Sympathy and compassion should be but natural to the human heart (Bondage Quotes)
I had a lot of hatred, but I realized that kind of hate didn’t do much. I had to start fueling myself with pride. We owe the ancestors that. So many of the souls who died in bondage just want us to recognize their struggle (Bondage Quotes)
It is all up to us. We are the ones who have to keep looking at our thoughts, looking for the nature of our mind. there is nobody else in control of our lives, our experiences, our freedom or our bondage (Bondage Quotes)
The average age of the world’s great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage (Bondage Quotes)
Appetite has really become an artificial and abnormal thing, having taken the place of true hunger, which alone is natural. The one is a sign of bondage but the other, of freedom (Bondage Quotes)
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect (Bondage Quotes)
If you begin with the assumption of freedom, the preoccupation is always how to keep freedom in check, how to bind; But if you begin with the assumption of bondage, the preoccupation is always how to set out the word that frees (Bondage Quotes)
True freedom, which is full joy, is the complete recognition of law and adaptation to it. Bondage comes from ignorance of law or opposition to it (Bondage Quotes)
It is high time to make known the glad tidings in these dark regions of sin and spiritual bondage (Bondage Quotes)
For some slaves, the first step out of bondage is to learn to see their lives with new eyes. Their reality is a social world where they have their place and some assurance of a subsistence diet. Born into slavery, they cannot easily redefine their lives outside the frame of enslavement (Bondage Quotes)
This, however, is sure: nothing is really lost. Any influence for good, no matter how ephemeral, makes its mark: it helps to leaven the loaf of evil: it leaves a loophole, albeit a small one, for a future escape from bondage (Bondage Quotes)
When thought is in bondage the truth is hidden, for everything is murky and unclear, and the burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness. What benefit can be derived from distinctions and separations? (Bondage Quotes)
Freedom from spiritual conflicts and bondage is not a power encounter; it’s a truth encounter (Bondage Quotes)
If you are thinking of nything with dependence upon it, there is a motive of curiosity, or pleasure, or success, and though the thinking will help towards satisfaction you will still be in bondage. There is no harm in this, but the higher samadhi, without such motives, is best (Bondage Quotes)
I want to declare to you today: Jesus died to make you holy. It is possible for you to live a life without bondage to sin (Bondage Quotes)
The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound (Bondage Quotes)
You have the right to work, but do not become so degenerate as to look for results. Work incessantly, but see something behind the work. Even good deeds can find a man in great bondage. Therefore be not bound by good deeds or by desires for name and fame (Bondage Quotes)
Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion (Bondage Quotes)
Truth is that which, when fully realized, sets you free from all bondage and all seeking (Bondage Quotes)
It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in fact the most in bondage to public taste (Bondage Quotes)
Fathers and husbands! do ye not also understand this fact? Do ye not see how, in the mental bondage of your wives and fair companions, ye yourselves are bound? (Bondage Quotes)
It is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum (Bondage Quotes)
I knew absolutely nothing about bondage. I’d always presumed it was just an inventive way of keeping your partner from going home (Bondage Quotes)
Collective freedom is one devoid of material bondage and one that supports the institutions necessary for democracy (Bondage Quotes)
Do not cling to anything, to any idea; because clinging is the bondage, even to the idea of enlightenment (Bondage Quotes)
Every individual, like a statue, develops in his life the laws of harmony, integrity, and freedom; or those of deformity, immorality, and bondage. Whether we wish to or not, we are all drawing our own pictures in the lives we are living (Bondage Quotes)
Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation (Bondage Quotes)
Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning (Bondage Quotes)
In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do (Bondage Quotes)
There are very real obstacles and challenges to any course of action. And there’s no need to add to them, by making up obstacles of your own. Unchain yourself from the bondage of your own thinking (Bondage Quotes)