Thought Liberation Quotes

Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.

I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment.

By words the mind is winged.

How can one become enlightened in one single moment? One can, because one is enlightened -- one just has to recognize the fact. It is not something that happens from the outside, it is something that arises from the inside. It has always been there but you were clouded, you were full of thoughts.

And with joy you realize for the first time "Thinking's just like not thinking — So I don't have to think any more".

Not that I'm any good at it, but the beauty of meditation is that it liberates us from our own thoughts.

One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them

I had to re-write "Philosophy" a lot. It was more obscure than what's in the book now, even! Some things I had to go back to and excise my former self, who was even more dense. I think you should teach whatever you want, Brian! That's the point of books like White Girls, to help free our thoughts!

Writing about an idea frees me of it. Thinking about it is a circle of repetitions.

Language is the net that holds thought trapped within a particular culture. But if one could only strike the ball with sufficient force, with perfect timing, it would perhaps break through the netting, continue on its course, never fall to earth, but go into orbit around the world.

If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me.