“Liberate yourself from concepts and see the truth with your own eyes.”
It exists HERE and NOW; it requires only one thing to see it: openness, freedom — the freedom to be open and not tethered by any ideas, concepts, etc. … When our mind is tranquil, there will be an occasional pause to its feverish activities, there will be a let-go, and it is only then in the interval between two thoughts that a flash of UNDERSTANDING — understanding, which is not thought — can take place.
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 43
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Jean Tinguely (1925–1991) Swiss painter and sculptor
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“It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
“Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.”
Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress
“Free yourself from the imprisonment of your own limiting beliefs and prejudices.”
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 83
George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist
Source: Lilith A and Lilith, 1896: A Duplex
“I tell you: "Only you yourself can be your liberator!"”
Wilhelm Reich book Listen, Little Man!
"Pope Gregory the Twenty Eighth" may be an error, or may be a satirization of the Roman Catholic Church as both an eternal oppressor and scapegoat for oppressors; there are as yet only 16 Popes who have been named Gregory.
Listen, Little Man! (1948)
Context: Your liberators tell you that that your suppressors are Wilhelm, Nikolaus, Pope Gregory the Twenty Eighth, Morgan, Krupp or Ford. And your "liberators" are called Mussolini, Napoleon, Hitler and Stalin.
I tell you: "Only you yourself can be your liberator!"
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
Gautama Buddha, Digha Nikaya, 16
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