Top 86 Self Liberation Quotes
#3. The poor and people of color are yoked to the abject; white people use its exploration as a path toward self-liberation. It's a valid critique - and one that Broad City has increasingly interrogated, suggesting, especially in later seasons, the extent of Abbi and Ilana's privilege.
Anne Helen Petersen
#5. It is not recognized in the full amplitude of the word that all freedom is essentially self-liberation - that I can have only so much freedom as I procure for myself by my owness.
Max Stirner
#6. Everybody must be given the opportunity for self liberation and development.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#7. Better, Josef, far better, to have the courage to change your convictions. Duty and faithfulness are shams, curtains to hide behind. Self-liberation means a sacred no, even to duty.
Irvin D. Yalom
#10. Freedom is self liberation and liberation of people from any suffering.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#11. What is the best form of education? Isn't education which provided self-liberation and liberation of other individuals?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#12. People who are advanced meditators don't worry about liberation and self-realization; they instead are interested in the welfare of others and aiding others in their liberation.
Frederick Lenz
#13. While writing 'City Boy,' I relied mainly on my own memories. In particular, I was able to describe the effect of gay liberation on an individual life (mine) as events paralleled my own growing self-acceptance; in this case, the political truly was the personal.
Edmund White
#14. In self-giving you must be so careful of egotism. You must be so careful when you are aiding others in their liberation not to have a sense of self.
Frederick Lenz
#15. As long as there is (worldly) selfish interest, there is no unity. Unity is attained with the ultimate intent of the Self [the intent of attaining self-realization, liberation].
Dada Bhagwan
#16. To work for libertarianism - to oppose the growth of government and aid the liberation of the individual - used to be an idealistic choice taken for purely idealistic reasons. Now it is an act of intelligent and almost desperate self-defense.
Robert Anton Wilson
#17. For years and years you enter into samadhi every day in order to attain liberation. Eternity fashions a new self which you find yourself with when you come out of samadhi. Each time you come out a little less, you might say, or your real self comes out a little more
Frederick Lenz
#18. Shed who you think you are, to experience who you really are.
Evita Ochel
#19. If you want to travel on the path of moksha (ultimate liberation), 'You' (the Self) do not have to 'do' anything. And if you want to wander in the worldly life, 'You' have to 'do' everything.
Dada Bhagwan
#20. The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.
Marianne Williamson
#21. To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders.
Paulo Freire
#22. Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an on-going exodus out of the closed inward-looking self toward its liberation through self-giving ... toward authentic self-discovery and indeed the discovery of God ...
Pope Benedict XVI
#23. If the new government rejects our urgent appeal, we will, next year, in solidarity with our people, intensify our struggle for self-determination, our struggle for national liberation to establish self-government in our homeland.
Velupillai Prabhakaran
#24. Where tradition tells us that people are best kept under control and denied freedom of expression and action, humanistic psychology argues for liberation, more open decision-making and a sharing of power and control.
Keith Tudor
#25. The most elusive and ultimately impossible act of liberation is freedom from sin and self, and no document or declaration of man regardless of how exquisitely penned can do that. Such an astonishing act of liberation could only have been penned in one place: the cross.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#26. If female liberation is to happen, if the reservoir of real female love is to be tapped, this sterile self-deception must be counteracted. The only literary form which could outsell romantic trash on the female market is hard-core pornography.
Germaine Greer
#27. He who wants to go to moksha (Final Liberation), he will have to realize his own self. Otherwise no matter how much of anything else he does, he will not attain moksha (liberation).
Dada Bhagwan
#28. If one were to worship the Soul (self) for even a moment, he will attain moksha without fail. Such is the elegance of the body-complex (paudgalik ramanta) in this world!
Dada Bhagwan
#29. How far is the Soul from attaining moksha (ultimate liberation)? Only the obstructive (antray) karmas.
Dada Bhagwan
#30. Anyone who wants a Prakruti (relative self) that brings worldly benefits, they should worship Mataji,the goddess mother. And those who want Moksha [ultimate liberation] should worship the Soul [Real Self]. Those who want both should worship both.
Dada Bhagwan
#31. The one who knowingly gets cheated is entitled to liberation!
Dada Bhagwan
#32. Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.
Daisaku Ikeda
#33. The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
Rachel Cusk
#34. Every action ('doing') causes bondage. 'Doing' is not needed for Liberation. For liberation, 'action' of Knowledge is required. Action of ignorance [of the self] is bondage. Action done with egoism is known as ignorant-action and the action done without egoism is known as knowledge-action.
Dada Bhagwan
#35. All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.
Dorothy Thompson
#36. The Black family of the future will foster our liberation, enhance our self-esteem, and shape our ideas and goals.
Dorothy Height
#37. Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women's opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering.
Elaine Heffner
#38. Where are you looking for samadhi (enlightened blissful state)? You just come into your own original Self-form of the Soul, final liberation and samadhi are the natural qualities of the Soul!
Dada Bhagwan
#39. The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has obtained liberation from self.
Madeleine L'Engle
#40. Only Gnan (Knowledge of the Self) will give liberation. All other instruments (& practices) create bondage.
Dada Bhagwan
#41. Unity does not exist in the world. Only when the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] grants moksha [liberation], does unity arise. Unity cannot prevail without Gnan [knowledge of the self].
Dada Bhagwan
#42. To liberate yourself from your own self-judgment is to liberate others from it as well. To love yourself is an act of love for the world.
Vironika Tugaleva
#43. Comfort ... was the key ingredient to making the prisoner crave the prison.
Ashim Shanker
#44. One of the greatest lies is to believe that we don't have value. One of the greatest mistakes is to act on that belief. And the greatest liberation is found in looking at the cross of Christ and realizing the enormity of the lie.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#45. I want to become the favorite song of my own uprising. I want to see the most forgotten, unused part of my soul the one which for years I kept closed out of spite, find the courage to go up to my mind and start writing liberation slogans across its highest fences.
Angelos Michalopoulos
#46. Moksha (ultimate liberation) cannot be attained until purity arises. To attain purity one has to realize 'Who am I?
Dada Bhagwan
#47. Self-mortification, far from producing liberation from material things, is far more likely to cause either an unhinged mind, delusions or a masochistic taste for more suffering, experienced, of course, as joy.
Idries Shah
#48. Suicide is nothing, but an act of depriving the soul from it's very right to liberation.
Aniruddha Sastikar
#49. What is the one going to Moksha (attaining Liberation) like? He is someone who enjoys only the bliss of the 'Self'.
Dada Bhagwan
#50. The key to liberation is within. - Each man binds himself; the fetters are ignorance, laziness, preoccupation with self, and fear. He must liberate himself, while accepting the fact that we are of this world, so that "In summer we sweat; in winter we shiver.
Bruce Lee
#51. It is equally easy, initially, for either a man or a woman to attain enlightenment, what we would call liberation or self-realization.
Frederick Lenz
#52. Someone once said to me,said Marguerite, that our home, our special country, is where we find liberation. I suppose she meant that it is where our souls find it easiest to escape from self, and it seem to me that it is that way with us when what is about us echoes the best that we are.
Elizabeth Goudge
#53. The path people know, is not the path of liberation. It is the path of the worldly life. The path of liberation is not one of imagination. It is a pure path. Where there are no worries, no externally created problems. There is bliss of the Self (samadhi) amidst all external problems.
Dada Bhagwan
#54. When the rose opens its heart, you will smell the fragrance of its soul.
Jit Sharma
#55. According to the classic liberal-arts ideal, learning promises liberation, but it is not liberation from demanding moral ideals and social norms, or liberation to act on our desires-it is, rather, liberation from slavery to those desires, from slavery to self.
Robert P. George
#56. Resilience is a systematic adaptation of the oppressed self under the arbitrary imposition of the political order. Emancipation is the liberation of the self from the oppressive imposition of the political order upon the self.
Bruno De Oliveira
#57. Bowing down in prayer to a body results in worldly life and bowing down in prayer to Soul results in attaining moksha (final liberation).
Dada Bhagwan
#58. The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.
Stefan Molyneux
#59. The actions carried out with ignorance of the Self [agnan bhaav, ignorance intent] is all bondage. Every action done with the awareness of I am pure Soul [gnan bhaav, knowledge intent], will grant liberation.
Dada Bhagwan
#60. If there is true 'Selfishness,' then there is 'liberation of the Self', and that indeed is one's own form (the Self).
Dada Bhagwan
#61. The Buddha's message was simple but profound. Neither a life of self-indulgence nor one of self-mortification can bring happiness. Only a middle path, avoiding these two extremes, leads to peace of mind, wisdom, & complete liberation from the dissatisfactions of life.
Henepola Gunaratana
#62. For man, mind is the cause of bondage and mind is the cause of liberation. Mind absorbed in sense objects is the cause of bondage, and mind detached from the sense objects is the cause of liberation.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
#63. Shed who you think you are, in order to experience who you really are.
Evita Ochel
#64. What I wasn't expecting was the euphoria once my body began releasing endorphins. The mixture of pain and pleasure was ecstasy. Getting my tattoo introduced me to secret, dark pleasures. I would always be a marked prisoner, but I was a liberated soul.
Scarlet Risque
#65. Freedom without the means to be self-supporting is a one-armed triumph.
Michelle Cliff
#66. Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
Balthus
#67. What she liked the most about drinking was not being present, that feeling of self-evasion, of disconnection, of liberation, of escape. Alcohol offered her an excellent alternative to being herself without actually dying.
Laura Esquivel
#68. A strong human spirit with control over appetites of the flesh is master over emotions and passions and not a slave to them. That kind of freedom is as vital to the spirit as oxygen is to the body! Freedom from self-slavery is true liberation!
Russell M. Nelson
#69. I would entertain the apparently fading idea that patriotism that serves the self is greed dressed in the garments of liberty and adorned with the fashion accessories of other associated patriotic notions.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#70. Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is the heartbeat of the gospel, joyful liberation from fear of the Final Outcome, a summons to self-acceptance, and freedom for a life of compassion toward others.
Brennan Manning
#71. Men must attempt to develop in themselves and their children liberation from the sense of self.
Men must be free from boundaries, patterns and
consistencies in order to be free to think, feel and create in new ways.
Luke Rhinehart
#72. The God of the Bible is the God of liberation rather than oppression; a God of justice rather than injustice; a God of freedom and humanity rather than enslavement and subservience; a God of love, righteousness and community rather than hatred, self-interest and exploitation.
Allan Boesak
#73. Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority ... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment.
Immanuel Kant
#74. To embrace an attitude of humility is to free myself from myself. And that is likely the great liberation of all.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#75. Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love.
Frederick Lenz
#77. Self-realization is liberation. Liberation is self-realization.
Frederick Lenz
#78. The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
Albert Einstein
#79. I can confidently state that the greatest rescues in my life have occurred when I've been saved from myself.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#80. Prayer is one action where I lay aside my abilities to immerse myself wholly in God's capabilities. And the liberation found in such an action is less about being engaged with God and more about being freed from myself.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#81. All actions are of the relative-self (prakrutik). Moksha (liberation) is the absence of attachment and abhorrence therein.
Dada Bhagwan
#82. Choosing to accept yourself is a political act. An act of liberation.
Francesca Martinez
#83. What is the body complex (pudgal)? It is influx and outflow (puran-galan); it is credit and debit. And if you attain knowledge of the Soul, the Self, then you will attain Moksha (liberation).
Dada Bhagwan
#86. Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.
Stefan Molyneux
