{"quotes":[{"text":"As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["bondage","book","book-critic","critic","wicked-looking"],"id":1554,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"The mind will enchain yourself, others or both. Your heart will set you / them free.","author":"Rasheed Ogunlaru","tags":["bondage","compassion","dependence","freedom","help","liberation","mental-slavery","the-heart"],"id":22754,"author_id":"Rasheed+Ogunlaru"},{"text":"The bond (of marriage) became the bondage itself.","author":"Nilesh Rathod","tags":["bondage","love","marriage","relationships"],"id":43775,"author_id":"Nilesh+Rathod"},{"text":"What is absolute humility (param vinaya)? It is on the one who has not disrespected anyone in the slightest! Absolute humility lies where there is no dispute, no difference of opinion or any law. Law is bondage.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["bondage","bondage-free","difference-of-opinion","humility","opinion","spiritual","vinaya"],"id":56534,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"However, if we don’t confront the seed of lies, it gives place for them to take root in us and we become bound to the “prison cell” that those lies create.","author":"E'yen A. Gardner","tags":["bondage","break-free","confronting-lies","god","lies","truth"],"id":67591,"author_id":"E%27yen+A.+Gardner"},{"text":"We breathe too fast to be able to grasp things in themselves or to expose their fragility. Our panting postulates and distorts them, creates and disfigures them, and binds us to them. I bestir myself, therefore I emit a world as suspect as my speculation which justifies it; I espouse movement, which changes me into a generator of being, into an artisan of fictions, while my cosmogonic verve makes me forget that, led on by the whirlwind of acts, I am nothing but an acolyte of time, an agent of decrepit universes. (...)If we would regain our freedom, we must shake off the burden of sensation, no longer react to the world by our senses, break our bonds. For all sensation is a bond, pleasure as much as pain, joy as much as misery. The only free mind is the one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.","author":"Emil M. Cioran","tags":["action","bondage","elusiveness-of-the-real","fiction","freedom","mind","movement","purity","sensation","thought"],"id":74561,"author_id":"Emil+M.+Cioran"},{"text":"Every action (‘doing’) causes bondage. ‘Doing’ is not needed for Liberation. For liberation, ‘action’ of Knowledge is required. Action of ignorance [of the self] is bondage. Action done with egoism is known as ignorant-action and the action done without egoism is known as knowledge-action.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["action","bondage","ego","egoism","ignorance","knowledge","liberation","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":86457,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"It is impossible to get rid of the bondage of slavery, if we do not start acting as free citizens of our country.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["acting","bondage","citizens","country","free","impossible","rid","slavery"],"id":91499,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Tests and persecutions will eventually lead to deliverance from bondage and make us stronger if we respond right to them.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["bondage","deliverance","lead","persecutions","respond","right","stronger","tests"],"id":93817,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Freedom...Is the act of releasing ourselves from the bondage of that which keeps us from living the life we were meant to live.","author":"Kelli Wilson","tags":["bondage","freedom","living"],"id":96857,"author_id":"Kelli+Wilson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":59,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}