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and the smile I'd been waiting for stretched across his face like the sun breaking free of the clouds.
Oct 1, 2025
Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free.
Meditation is a teaching which offers you the possibility of breaking free of this egoic state of consciousness and coming into a whole new realization of who and what you truly are. And all this starts with the willingness to question. To pause for just a moment and realize that maybe you aren't who you imagine yourself to be.
We create an image of happiness and success and then we are beholden to it. We tell ourselves stories and sometimes these stories become so strong as to imprison us. Breaking free from our personal fortresses is a long, hard journey, but ultimately what allows one to grow.
Gender has always been considered a fact immutable. But we now know it's actually more fluid, complex, and mysterious. Because of my success, I never have the courage to share my story. Not because I thought what I am is wrong but because of how the world treats those of us who wish to break free.
Freedom from slavery is achieved only when a person starts to feel and understand that he would prefer death to life as a slave.
I don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world.
"Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now.
Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!
I encourage breaking free of self inflicted holding pens. I encourage the use of intelligence in every decision. I encourage creating.
When we face our fears, we can find our freedom.
Breaking free, or not, is usually determined by whether you want to get somewhere slowly or nowhere fast.
I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.
As God took me through the journey that became the Bible study Breaking Free, He taught me to look for a common denominator among the things that triggered my destructive habits.
Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining prison of faith (all three were believing Christians, of one sort or another) but from the enormous burden of the millennial authority of Aristotelian science. The scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was not a revival of Hellenistic science but its final defeat.
This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky - that's called liberation.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Just practice good, do good for others, without thinking of making yourself known so that you may gain reward. Really bring benefit to others, gaining nothing for yourself. This is the primary requisite for breaking free of attachments to the Self.
The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.
My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If I could peel myself inside out I would be glad. If I could become part of the oppressed I would be free.
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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