Bondage Quotes - Page 4

• Karma is your survival and your bondage. And if you handle it right, it can also be your liberation.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Karma, Spiritual, Humanity

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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.

  Du Fu

  Struggle, Heart, Compassion

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• When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad - then only do we escape from bondage. Eternal progression is eternal bondage; annihilation of form is to be preferred. We must get free from any body, even a "god-body". God is the only real existence, there cannot be two. There is but One Soul, and I am That.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Names, Two

  Swami Vivekananda (1921). “Vedanta Philosophy: Inspired Talks, Recorded by a Disciple During the Seven Weeks at Thousand Island Park”

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• Choice is bondage, choicelessness freedom. The moment you choose something, you have fallen in the trap of the world. If you can resist the temptation to choose, if you can remain choicelessly aware, the trap disappears on its own accord, because when you don`t choose you don`t help the trap to be there - the trap is also created by your choice.

  Rajneesh

  Choices, Temptation, World

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• Mind alone is the cause of the bondage or freedom of the soul. By the attachment of the mind to the world we become bound; by the devotion of the mind to God presence within as the Soul of every soul, we become free.

  Terry Cole-Whittaker

  Soul, Mind, World

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• I think that any black man who teaches black people to turn the other cheek and suffer peacefully after they've been turning the cheek and suffering peacefully for 400 years in a land of bondage, under the most cruel, inhuman and wicked slavemaster that any people have ever been under, he is doing those people an injustice, and he's a traitor to his own people.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Thinking, Years

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• Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Iron, Gold, Slavery

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.453, Manonmani Publishers

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• The chief helps in this liberation are Abhyasa and Vairagya. Vairagya is non - attachment to life, because it is the will to enjoy that brings all this bondage in its train; and Abhyasa is constant practice of any one of the Yogas.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Yoga, Attachment, Practice

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word they use for it is, therefore, Mukti - freedom, freedom from the bonds of imperfection, freedom from death and misery.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perfection, Soul, Vedas

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Chicago Addresses”, p.17, Advaita Ashrama

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• You know the known, so go a little into the unknown. The mind that is caught up in the known - extended a little beyond reason. The moment you go beyond , you move in the soul. Releasing the bondage of your mind to extend further, reach the unknown a little more. The further you go, you realize that the known is limited and the unknown is vast.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Moving, Soul, Mind

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• Being aware of the bondage is enough to free you from its clutches.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Meditation, Enough, Clutch

  Twitter post from May 26, 2014

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• 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.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Names, Desire

  Swami Vivekananda (1926). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”

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• Some imaginations help to break the bondage of the rest. The whole universe is imagination, but one set of imaginations will cure another set. Those that tell us that there is sin and sorrow and death in the world are terrible. But the other set - thou art holy, there is God, there is no pain - these are good, and help to break the bondage of the others. The highest imagination that can break all the links of the chain is that of the Personal God.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Art, Pain, Imagination

  Swami Vivekananda (1997). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for as Greeks we should not be slaves to barbarians.

  Alexander the Great

  Moving, Army, Greek

  "Historia Alexandri Magni". Pseudo-Kallisthenes,

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• Our illusions-the beliefs we hold on to-are the very doorways to our freedom. We simply have to enter through them without grasping or pushing away. We must not believe them, but we must not run away from them either. We need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.

  Adyashanti

  Running, Believe, Compassion

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• The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought, filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Science, Engineering, Giving

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.67, Library of Alexandria

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• Only within our body, with its heart and mind, can bondage and suffering be found, and only here can we find true liberation.

  Gautama Buddha

  Heart, Mind, Suffering

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• The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.

  Boris Sidis

  Elements, Evolution, Individual

  Boris Sidis, Simon Philip Goodhart (1905). “Multiple Personality: An Experimental Investigation Into the Nature of Human Individuality”

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• Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart.

  John Ford

  Heart, Honest, Slave

  John Ford (1827). “Dramatic works of John Ford ...”, p.274

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• If you want to be a slave in life, then continue going around asking others to do for you. They will oblige, but you will find the price is your choices, your freedom, your life itself. They will do for you, and as a result you will be in bondage to them forever, having given your identity away for a paltry price. Then, and only then, you will be a nobody, a slave, because you yourself and nobody else made it so.

  Terry Goodkind

  Choices, Forever, Identity

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• Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.

  Lauren Oliver

  Unhappiness

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.182, Hachette UK

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• Get rid of the bondage of body; we have become slaves to it and learnt to hug our chains and love our slavery; so much so that we long to perpetuate it, and go on with "body" "body" for ever. Do not cling to the idea of "body", do not look for a future existence in any way like this one; do not love or want the body, even of those dear to us.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ideas, Long, Hug

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.

  Albert Camus

  Inspiration, Achievement, Higher

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• We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Delight, Holiness, Pleasure

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.666, Discovery House

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• Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.

  James Frey

  Freedom, Lifetime, Million Little Pieces

  James Frey (2009). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.267, Hachette UK

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