"They tell me: If you see a..." - Quote by Khalil Gibran
They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them: If you see a slave sleeping, wake him and explain to him freedom.
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“A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free.”
“Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb?”
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.”
More on Freedom
“To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is the way of genius.”
“You shall be held down by the chains of your own judgment.”
“Man's experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.”
More on Awareness
“Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness.”
“I never really made a choice to live in America, so I should be aware of the social strata outside of the ones that I may live in.”
“When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced by an alert stillness. You are fully conscious, yet the mind is not labeling this moment in any way... It is a shift from identification with form --the thought or the emotion-- to being and recognizing yourself as that which has no form -- spacious awareness.”