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The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.
S. N. Goenka
2.
Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.
Sigmund Freud
3.
Some people are into bondage... and some people are into crossdressing.. . and some people are into Coldplay. It's okay, I don't mind being a fetish.
Chris Martin
4.
Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Freedom is from something. What are you to be free from? Obviously, you must be free from the person you take yourself to be, for it is the idea you have of yourself that keeps you in bondage.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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The only person I did bondage for was Irving Klaw and his sister Paula. Usually they would shoot four or five models every Saturday. He wouldn't pay for the regular pictures unless we did some bondage. So I did bondage shots to get paid for the other photos.
Bettie Page
7.
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.
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
8.
I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can't hold me in these chains. I'll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change
Lauryn Hill
9.
Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.
Rick Moody
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Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief,"I am the do-er."
Ramana Maharshi
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I will lead my people out of bondage, Lord.
Cicely Tyson
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An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
Albert Camus
14.
We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.
William H. Seward
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Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
Ramakrishna
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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
Marianne Moore
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Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.
Abraham Lincoln
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Truth is that which, when fully realized, sets you free from all bondage and all seeking.
Adi Da
20.
Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.
James Frey
21.
Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.
Terence McKenna
22.
It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.
Oscar Wilde
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If you dare declare that you are free, free you are this moment. If you say you are bound, bound you will remain.
Swami Vivekananda
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Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
Thomas Moore
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The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.
Plato
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it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.
Dorothea Brande
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Wherever there is desire and ambition, you are in bondage.
Rajneesh
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Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.
Matthew Simpson
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We will only truly be free when those in bondage are finally free
Desmond Tutu
32.
There was bondage in love; no one had told her that love took away freedom.
Alice Tisdale Hobart
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A man cannot be comfortable spiritually who is in bondage financially.
Francis M. Lyman
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Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.
Lauren Oliver
35.
A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.
Anna Brownell Jameson
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Collective freedom is one devoid of material bondage and one that supports the institutions necessary for democracy.
Henry Giroux
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His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him.
Jack London
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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.
Dennis Jernigan
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Do we always make our freedom out of someone else's bondage?
May Sarton
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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.
Gerhard
44.
After all, when you're talking about an authority figure oppressing against people, it's the people that hold that authority figure up. If you want to get free of this bondage, then we need to think about ways to free ourselves, rather than looking to the oppressors to free us.
Keith Stanfield
45.
It wasn't often you ran into bondage/Elvis/whorehouse-themed vampire club
Charlaine Harris
46.
Music isn't seeking to comment on the experience or transmit some finding about it - it is only seeking to express it. The vicarious experience is much more accessible. We all recognize the sound of that howling, because we all have a similar howling inside of us, however we heed it or hold it or muzzle it or repress it or live in bondage to it.
Melissa Febos
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One has neither independence nor freedom from bondage when he is obligated to others
Gordon B. Hinckley
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God would come down and lead us out of bondage. And God led us out of bondage.
Desmond Tutu
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All men are into bondage, 'specially if they're real assholes at work all day.
Kathy Lette