It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.
Aversion is a form of bondage. We are tied to what we hate or fear. That is why, in our lives, the same problem, the same danger or difficulty, will present itself over and over again in various prospects, as long as we continue to resist or run away from it instead of examining it and solving it.
Give up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can "see the Father", as did Jesus.
He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind - that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.
You didn't hear Yello until later in the night in the bondage clubs. Things would start getting crazy and that's when you'd hear Yello. It was bad.
Our life is a reflection of what we believe we deserve. As we deepen our acceptance of and open ourselves to the Infinite love of the universe, a new power flows through us, releasing us from the bondage of our old way of life.
If we fail to see that there are powers that cause people to be bowed down in bondage, we are going to fight the wrong battle.
A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind
Like the cellar-growing vine is the Christian who lives in the darkness and bondage of fear. But let him go forth, with the liberty of God, into the light of love, and he will be like the plant in the field, healthy, robust, and joyful.
The moment you think creed and form and ceremony the "be-all" and "end-all", then you are in bondage. Take part in them to help others, but take care they do not become a bondage.
He who asserts he is free, shall be free. He who says he is bound, bound he shall remain.
A golden chain is as much a chain as an iron one. Shri Ramakrishna used to say that, to pick out one thorn which has stuck into the foot, another thorn is requisitioned, and when the thorn is taken out, both are thrown away. So the bad tendencies are to be counteracted by the good ones, but after that, the good tendencies have also to be conquered.
No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'
A man cannot be comfortable spiritually who is in bondage financially.
Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.
If we, who have been redeemed, don't say what we have been redeemed from, how are those in the same bondage going to even know that there is hope.
You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.
Do we always make our freedom out of someone else's bondage?
The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.
We are in bondage to that which overcomes us. See also 2 Peter 2:19.
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