Mind Liberation Quotes

Is there no way out of the mind?

An artist must smash down the systems that domesticate the mind.

Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.

I do not understand why people want to control their minds. I want them to liberate their minds.

In western civilization, the period ruled by mysticism is known as the 'Dark Ages' and the 'Middle Ages'. I will assume that you know the nature of that period and the state of human existence in those ages. The Renaissance broke the rules of the mystics. "Renaissance" means the "rebirth". Few people today will care to remind you that it was a rebirth of reason - of man's mind.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

In this world, the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside. The bravest man is who can see the world without the barrier of the mind, just as it is. It is tremendously different, utterly beautiful. There is nobody who is inferior and there is nobody who is superior - there are no distinctions.

Television captures the mind but does not liberate it. A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind.

I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.

Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment.

Both poetry and philosophy are prodigal of eulogy over the mind which ransoms itself by its own energy from a captivity to custom, which breaks the common bounds of empire, and cuts a Simplon over mountains of difficulty for its own purposes, whether of good or of evil.

"I am breathing in and liberating my mind. I am breathing out and liberating my mind." One practices like this.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.

This is deathless: the liberation of the mind through lack of clinging.

I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.

To understand the present with its full, rich significance, the mind must free itself from the habit of self-protecting acquisition; when it is utterly naked, then there is immortality.

Let's say there's something operating in you called Mind. It's very powerful, but it's dampened by the body, by physicality. When you die, that tether gets cut and off the mind goes with incredible power.

Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.

Ourselves are cosmic and capacious beyond conjecture, and to experience some notion of the planetary perspective is the richest income from travelling. It takes all to inform and educate all. Sallies forth from our cramped firesides into other homes, other hearts, are wonderfully wholesome and enlarging. Travel opens prospects on all sides, widens our horizon, liberates the mind from geographical and conventional limitations, from local prejudices and national, showing the globe in its differing climates, zones, and latitudes of intelligence.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The one and only thing required is to free oneself from the bondage of mind and body alike, putting the Buddha's own seal upon yourself. If you do this as you sit in ecstatic meditation, the whole universe itself scattered through the infinity of space turns into enlightenment. This is what I mean by the Buddha's seal.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.

After a dark, violent age, the Piscean, we are entering a millennium of love and light in the words of the popular song the 'Age of Aquarius,' the time of the mind's true liberation.