In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.
No chains around my feet, But I'm not free.
Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip," Jonathan would say, other times, "is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too.
The superstition in which we grew up, Though we may recognize it, does not lose Its power over us.-Not all are free Who make mock of their chains.
I try to shake it loose-but these ideas, they cling. It's like I'm shackled to them with an iron chain. They rattle along behind me, dragging against the ground, always reminding me of their presence.
The only burden you have ever had is your mind.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
Parade my trouble in front of you guys? Make you realize that my heart is broken . . . that as long as I live I'll have chains dragging me down to the oceans of sad tears that my feet are wet in already.
The shackles of belief, when reinforced by fear, are difficult to break free from and rarely done.
I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.
Be not the slave of your own past.
We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us.
If the ministers of the Church have often permitted nations to revolt for Heaven's cause, they never allowed them to revolt against real evils or known violencess. It is from Heaven that the chains have come to fetter the minds of mortals.
Break the chains in our brains that make us fear.
