Helen Gahagan Quotes

I was not going to allow myself to really believe that I was free until I was actually free.

It is not the mind, but the heart that makes free.

Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.

The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.

I think that freedom is sometimes a state of mind. Sometimes, mind you, but not always.

Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because I know what it means to be a slave. I am a slave.

Being free is a state of mind.

At the center of our agency is our freedom to form a healthy attitude toward whatever circumstances we are placed in!

Before practicing meditation, we see that mountains are mountains. When we start to practice, we see that mountains are no longer mountains. After practicing a while, we see that mountains are again mountains. Now the mountains are very free. Our mind is still with the mountains, but it is no longer bound to anything.

This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.

A free mind is one which is untroubled and unfettered by anything, which has not bound its best part to any particular manner of being or worship and which does not seek its own interest in anything but is always immersed in God's most precious will. . . . There is no work which men and women can perform, however small, which does not draw from this its power and strength.

The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

You are already free. You only have to know and realize this truth.

That mind which understands itself is the mind of a free man.

Freedom is an elusive concept. Some men hold themselves prisoner even when they have the power to do as they please and go where they choose, while others are free in their hearts, even as shackles restrain them.

Many people open their mind through different things like music and painting, as well as Parkour. How is not important. What is important is to open your mind because you gain some freedom through it.

This mind is a prison. It cannot find any freedom anywhere. It must die before freedom comes to you. But we have taken the mind as us, we are identified with it. This death of mind never happens to us, it never occurs to us.

To be well in your mind you have first to be free.

If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude.

A people contending for life and liberty are seldom disposed to look with a favorable eye upon either men or measures whose passions, interests or consequences will clash with those inestimable objects.

No matter your position, circumstances, or opportunities in life, you always have the freedom of mind to choose how you experience, interpret, and, ultimately, shape your world.

I realized that they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. They could not take those things. Those things I still had control over. And I decided not to give them away.

Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.