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“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is...”
“The method that is required is not one of correlation but of liberation. Even the term method must be reinterpreted and in fact wrenched out of its usual semantic field, for the emerging creativity...”
“The woman who is liberated must never cross the line in which we ask men to examine their actions; we are a country built on the ideas, ingenuity, canniness, and downright brutality of manto questi...”
“Why was it that nine men out of ten thought women were incapable of doing anything but boiling potatoes? she thought furiously, and felt a savage sympathy for members of the Women's Lib movement, w...”
“This world is not without causes. There is Moksha [ultimate liberation] when ones causes stops. There is Moksha where everyone's 'claim' is completed. Without a cause, effect does not happen.”
“One's life is fractured; he does not even know what he is living for. What is the essence of the human life? It is that one can attain whatever life form one wants, or he can attain ultimate libera...”
“Where there is even a trace of etiquette, there is no religion of moksha [ultimate liberation] there, nor any other religion. Religion is to be found in naturalness (saahajeekta)”
“As long as there is (worldly) selfish interest, there is no unity. Unity is attained with the ultimate intent of the Self [the intent of attaining self-realization, liberation].”
“Inauspicious intents (ashubh bhaav) binds demerit karma (paap), auspicious intents (shubh bhaav) binds merit karma (punya) and pure intents (shuddh bhaav) results in liberation (moksha).”
“The one who straightens out himself will attain moksha [will be liberated]. If you dont straighten out, people will beat you into doing so. The doorway to moksha [ultimate liberation] is narrow, so...”
“Mind is indeed that which takes one to Moksha, and it is also the mind that makes one wander around in the worldly life. One needs to just turn it in the right direction. It had been turned in the ...”
“What is it that doesnt allow you to go to moksha? Obstinacy!”
“Liberating a prejudiced mind from its preconceived notions and scripting a life of purposefulness requires constant postulation, observation, evaluation, and synthesizing.”
“It is morally appalling for the so called liberators of South Sudan to keep liberating their own people from a war that has already been won.”
“If you want to travel on the path of moksha (ultimate liberation), You (the Self) do not have to do anything. And if you want to wander in the worldly life, You have to do everything.”
“The answer to the problem of suffering is not away from the problem but in it. The inevitability of pain will not be met by deadening sensitivity but by increasing it, by exploring and feeling out ...”
“...you go back to liberate the captives and sadly realize, some want to remain tied down in the cave...”
“I find that there are a lot of objects and subjects within the world today. There's so much going on, that it seems like reality itself is trying hide something. Not only do we have to deal with il...”
“Moksha (ultimate liberation) cannot be attained until purity arises. To attain purity one has to realize Who am I?”
“Like some homeopathic cure, our very sense of imprisonment can be a step toward liberation. We need not rebel against our temporally determined roles. Merely to recognize them is to limit their pow...”
