Spiritual Bondage Quotes

#1. Christianity ... made, for nearly 1,500 years, persecution, religious wars, massacres, theological feuds and bloodshed, heresy huntings and heretic burnings, prisons, dungeons, anathemas, curses, opposition to science, hatred of liberty, spiritual bondage, the life without love or laughter ...

M. M. Mangasarian

#2. It is high time to make known the glad tidings in these dark regions of sin and spiritual bondage.

Samuel Marsden

#3. Love. Who knows about another's love? The more you love the more you know the burnt out loss of love, the more you heed the silence of unknowing in the face of another's spiritual bondage.

Anne Rice

#4. In a place of purity, if one does not follow the conduct of that place, there will be tremendous (karma) bondage. He will bind a life in hell!

Dada Bhagwan

#5. Mind is the only reason for human bondage and relief. Whenever mind is free from all physical attachment it is relieved and finds its way to the god.

Prajwalit

#6. Regardless of how much wealth [material pleasures] one has, if he does not like bondage even for a moment, then he has become qualified to understand the science of the Vitarags [the enlightened one's].

Dada Bhagwan

#7. Global evangelism does not take place in a demilitarized zone but on the battleground of spiritual warfare. Satan, in vengeance and jealousy for that which belongs to God, is deceiving the nations and holding them in bondage to a lie.

Ed Stetzer

#8. God doesn't need to be a witness. He doesn't need to go to a court, does he? 'You' are the one who has to attain a witness state, so that there's no karma bondage. And 'God' only keeps on 'seeing'!

Dada Bhagwan

#9. Accept only as much 'cleanliness' that it won't cause you to worry if it became dirty. Maintain 'cleanliness' such that and only to the point that it does not burden you into bondage.

Dada Bhagwan

#10. What is absolute humility (param vinaya)? It is on the one who has not disrespected anyone in the slightest! Absolute humility lies where there is no dispute, no difference of opinion or any law. Law is bondage.

Dada Bhagwan

#11. The moment I drove away in September I felt like someone was following our car with an eraser, rubbing out my old life.

Samantha Schutz

#12. Only Gnan (Knowledge of the Self) will give liberation. All other instruments (& practices) create bondage.

Dada Bhagwan

#13. Whatever our destiny is, whatever our Karma is, if we simply accept the mercy of Guru, "Guru Kripa", it can completely liberate us from all of our previous Karmic bondage.

Radhanath Swami

#14. Even as it clouds our corporeal vision, intoxication clarifies our spiritual vision. The mind, set free from the heavy bondage of the body, flees away like a prisoner whose guard has fallen asleep, leaving the keys at the prison gate.

Gerard De Nerval

#15. Things never come when they are expected.

Agatha Christie

#16. Whatever one does without the right belief (samkit - Self-realization) will lead to karmic bondage. Even when he gives to charity or shows kindness; it is all karma bondage.

Dada Bhagwan

#17. The religions of the world believe abandh (discharge part) as bandh (bondage; charging of new karma) and they have no idea about what causes bandh (bondage, charging of new karma).

Dada Bhagwan

#18. 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

#19. If the 'effect' is experienced, [karmic] bondage is created. If one experiences the 'effects' alone by himself, the [karmic] bondage will not be sticky. If he involves another person in it, the karmic bondage will be sticky.

Dada Bhagwan

#20. The mind's nature is worldly. If someone comes late, the mind will say 'Why did you come at this wrong time?' And this will create [bondage with] an iron shackle.

Dada Bhagwan

#21. I think UNC and Lorrie Fair is a perfect match.

Lorrie Fair

#22. 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

#23. My hair has been this chapter thing for me. In 'Jem,' I have blue hair. 'Insidious,' it's pink. In 'CSI,' I have blonde. I love changing my hair. It's just hair and it grows all the time.

Hayley Kiyoko

#24. Break away from every yoke of bondage in Jesus Name.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Jaggi Vasudev

#26. If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure the treasures ofits inheritance on new and more stable foundations, there is indeed need for those now living fully to realize how far the decay has already progressed.

Johan Huizinga

#27. When we think of an actor, we think of a tanned, frosted-tipped, model-looking guy. We don't think of a plumber.

Nick Offerman

#28. It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#29. Knowledge that leads to restlessness (unsteadiness) is tremendous bondage.

Dada Bhagwan

#30. That which frees one from bondage is the right religion.

Dada Bhagwan

#31. One of the reasons I started working at 'South Park,' actually, was that I wanted to learn how to structure things and how to tell a story.

Bill Hader

#32. The Lord will deliver us from every chain of sin, slavery and bondage.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#33. Where there is any kind of doer-ship, there is karmic bondage, and where there is knower-ship and inner understanding, there is Moksha [Liberation].

Dada Bhagwan

#34. We were a country band with a social conscience.

Kinky Friedman

#35. Form is never more than an extension of content.

Robert Creeley

#36. Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.

M.J. Rose

#37. Is it wrong worldly interaction (avyavahar) when someone insults you? It is (correct) worldly interaction (vyavahar). Gnani (Self-realized person) will be pleased that he has become free from karma bondage, when someone insults Him; while a non Self-realized person will fight back.

Dada Bhagwan

#38. Freedom from spiritual conflicts and bondage is not a power encounter; it's a truth encounter.

Neil T. Anderson

#39. Gnan' [True Knowledge, Knowledge of one's own self], is freedom itself. It keeps one in Moksha [liberated state] and prevents [karmic] bondage.

Dada Bhagwan