Laura Marling Quotes

Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt. Sure, we all feel it. But we also get to decide if we're going to let guilt bring us down or not. Acknowledge the feelings, and then give yourself permission to let them go.

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

To find freedom and happiness in each others' arms, or you know, inside their own bodies and minds. That is a very empowering thing in a society that's trying to control us all the time.

Oh to be free of myself, With nothing left to remember, To have my heart as bare As a tree in December; Resting, as a tree rests After its leaves are gone, Waiting no more for a rain at night Nor for the red at dawn.

The act of 'letting go' is actually very easy - it's effortless. Thinking about, talking about, and contemplating 'letting go' is hard.

When you meditate you discover over and over again that you are not a prisoner of your mind.

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

True freedom is an inward state of being. Once it is attained, no situation in the world can bind one or limit one's freedom.

you know, a daydream properly utilized can be the most powerful force in the universe. One need only dream of freedom to begin to break the spell of enslavement.

We can never found the soul, just as we can never wound God, but we become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched, even when we have everything we need in order to be happy.

There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.

There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.

There is no need to punish yourself. Simply notice what you've been choosing and choose again.

Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to he had in it.

Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom. The way to find happiness is through the cure. Therefore, it is only through the cure that one finds freedom.

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

You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. You were created to be victorious.

Fear and guilt are your only enemies. If you let go of fear, fear lets go of you. If you release guilt, guilt will release you. How do you do that? By deciding to.

You don’t need a reason to be happy...your desire to be so is sufficient.

Enjoy everything. Need nothing.

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.

I don't work so hard at trying to get every song to be three-dimensional and mean so much. I just want to breathe, right now, with the music.

Madness is surprisingly freeing.

I didn't fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.

Many people see themselves as a problem that needs to be solved. They also habitually see the present moment as an obstacle that they need to overcome or get away from. With awareness, an inner sense of spaciousness arises that enables you to look at your own mind, which is to say the human mind, with a certain degree of detachment.