emotional sovereignty Quotes

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.

True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.

The feelings of another person should never be imposed upon us as a law.

It is only necessary to destroy in oneself the roots of those motives which determine a man's course, in order to enjoy the omnipotence and immunity of a god.

You may my Glories and my State depose, But not my Griefes; still am I King of those.

Recently, one friend asked me, "How can I force myself to smile when I am filled with sorrow? It isn't natural." I told her she must be able to smile to her sorrow, because we are more than our sorrow. A human being is like a television set with millions of channels. If we turn the Buddha on, we are the Buddha. If we turn sorrow on then we are sorrow. If we turn a smile on, we really are the smile. We can not let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to seize the situation in our hand, to recover our own sovereignty.

However awful the storm of my disappointment, it's a response that belongs to me. It's my heart, after all. My territory, my kingdom. And since I'm the only one with the authority to surrender it, I can also take it back.

This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary. It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free -- to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national State, or of some private interest within the nation, want him to think, feel and act.

One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom

The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy,--more formidable to its enemy, more sweet and serene in its influence to its friend, than any kingdom in history. For a man, rightly viewed, comprehendeth the particular natures of all men.

Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

The heart has its own laws... and the truth is... the truth is that you are the law of mine.

Your feelings are your god.