Psychological Freedom Quotes

Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.

Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics.

Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind -- is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly.

Your shadow will always release whatever overshadows you

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

I can't say that I was my happiest on court, but I felt completely free. Free from family obligations, free from my own torment. In a real sense I was a different person. It was a place where I could not tolerate the idea of being beaten. I psyched myself up into a state where I felt something close to hatred towards my opponent, a state where I detested the idea of someone making his name at the expense of Jimmy Connors. I was in my element on court, measuring myself against someone else. I was not competitive for show. It came from deep within.

It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.

... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that old sanity of the world, which was become so repulsive. He rejoiced in the new-found world of his madness. It was so fresh and delicate and so satisfying.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

Psychosynthesis is a method of psychological development and self realization for those who refuse to remain the slave of their own inner phantasms or of external influences, who refuse to submit passively to the play of psychological forces which is going on within them, and who are determined to become the master of their own lives.

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.

As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free.

Nobody wants to get locked up, although 'locked up' is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars.

In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the cause, there is no rule or 'law'. It is we alone who have devised cause, sequence, for-each-other, relativity, constraint, number, law, freedom, motive, and purpose; and when we project and mix this symbol world into things as if it existed 'in itself', we act once more as we have always acted- mythologically.

Man is free; but not unless he believes he is[.]

The thrall in person may be free in soul

Old unhealthy thoughts can block off inspiration and motivation. Dropping them releases a strong flow of power through the mind.

A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.

You are not free until your past has no effect on your future

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.

Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.

When you remain angry with another person, you give away your emotional control to that person each time you think of him or here. You allow him or her to control your emotions at long distance. By not forgiving, you allow that person to run your emotional life, exactly as if he or she were right there with you and the situation was occurring all over again.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

You want to feel free. Every player can show his best when he is free. If you are a little bit afraid of something, you cannot show your best.