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One who does not fall, does not stand up.
We are unfree, unhappy, and unsettled when we allow things outside of our control, like other people, circumstances, events, or even illnesses, determine our internal attitudes and emotions.
Unlimit yourself: Stand in power, walk with intention.
When you surrender and release the illusion of control, you begin to free-fall toward your destiny of a grand reunion with your original-self; a self uncorrupted by the world's false lessons of fear and control.
unwinding is, by law, painless.
Would you rather die, or be unwound?
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
Yield and you need not break. Bent, you can straighten. Emptied, you can hold. Torn, you can mend.
a gradual leaking away of all conviction
Oh, I'm bowed, but unbroken.
Repose, v.i. To cease from troubling.
Unceasing prayer is the unbroken union of the soul with God, so that life from God flows into our life; and from our life, purity and holiness flow back to God.
I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand
they only. Know this at last.
Tension demands release. Unusual tension demands release that can only be described as appalling.
Balance hangs in the fingers of Peace
Stability is not immobility.
People always tend to identify, instinctively, freedom with abandon.But the type of abandon that seeks personal gratification always gets you "tied up in a knot."Abandon instead your personal fears and desires ... and you, the real you, will become freed, released from the bonds of your own mind.
To be with someone who is stronger than you. To have him relinquish his strength.
To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.
When you find a burden in belief or apparel, cast it off.
When at length we tire of putting people down, this self-inflicted fatigue can give way to the invigorating calisthenics of lifting people up.
Submission reaches the end of its tether when it becomes destructive.
There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.
You must stand unshaken amidst the crash of breaking worlds
Courage never to submit of yield.
We can reach untainted experiential freedom, by living in the moment as it is - without contemplation. Here we find the possibility of freedom - of just being - living as our authentic self. We are our true nature. We are one and whole.
Nonjudging is neutrally noticing your own internal states.
When my life stayed the course, I wouldn't even feel them binding. Then I would waiver enough to sense the growing entrapment, the taming of my life in which I had been complicit.
I let go of all that does not serve me with gentleness and ease.
There isn't one single thing that will end unwinding. It will take a hodgepodge of random events that come together in just the right way and at just the right time to remind society it's got a conscience. -Sonia
Stand fast, firm and steadfast.
I steady him, he steadies me, the chain that binds us, the chain that sets us free.
- Ben Parish.
Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.
To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.
I'm all right,' Jace protested, but his hand gripped Alec's sleeve tightly. 'I can stand.'
It looks to me like you're using a wall to prop you up. That's not my definition of "standing."'
It's leaning,' Jace told him. 'Leaning comes right before standing.
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
To rise above the modifications of your mind, when you cease your mind, when you cease to be a part of your mind, that is yoga.
Holding tight, denying the fact that eventually we all had to let go.
In the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am - unbound.
Acceptance. It sounds so gentle; you foolishly imagine you might try it. As if you could choose. You don't choose. You plummet into acceptance, because the floor has collapsed beneath your feet.
If you're at the end of your rope ... untie the knot in your heart.
I was tired of acting free when I was not, tired of acting strong when I was in fact weak. I hungered more for freedom than I cared for the approval of those around me. I had already discovered that their approval could never set me free.
When you stand still, you reject the struggle, and you refuse to change and grow. Ultimately, you reject fulfillment, happiness, the dance for joy and everything else that is eternally good.
Abdicating-Decision-Making
Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.
untrammelled flow
In our life sometimes we have to make painful choices. And it takes a bit of courage to make up our mind for it involves an element of renunciation, something hard to accept in a world steeped in pleasure and comfort.
Resolve, and thou art free. But breathe the air
Of mountains, and their unapproachable summits
Will lift thee to the level of themselves.
Being. Not being. Giving in. Holding out. No matter what I do, it hurts.
Surrender to your own self, of which everything is an expression.
Trusting the resolve in my heart is but a stepping stone to the future I now see clearly.
The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.
To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.
There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.
The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse.
Being bridled, or yielding obediently to restraint, is necessary for our personal growth and progression.
How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make, As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now refuse, Thread by thread the strands we twist Till they bind us neck and wrist, Thread by thread the patient hand Must untwine ere free we stan
As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.
As long as I do not give in to tension,
I hold on to tension.
P.C.M. Hermans
Worldpoet 546
August 18, 2016
Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt
It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
To be free from bondage the wise person must practise discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self.
By that alone you will become full of joy, recognising Self as Pure Being, Consciousness and Bliss.
Freedom is Letting Go.
A Cue from Nature
Run outside during a thunderstorm
That downpour, that conquered hesitation, that exhilaration
That's what unlonely is like
As long as you SIT, you Stay In Trouble. Once you STAND, you Shift Toward A New Direction, take a STEP, and Start To Embrace Purpose, then WALK to Welcome Abundance, Love and Knowledge.
Unconstraint is the grace of conversation.
I had some short struggle in my mind whether I should resign my lover or my liberty, but this lasted not long. I found myself as free as air and could not bear the thought of putting myself in any man's power for life only from a present capricious inclination.
In solitude I get rid of my scaffolding ...
Solitude molds self-righteous people into gentle, caring, forgiving persons who are so deeply convinced of their own great sinfulness and so fully aware of God's even greater mercy that their life itself becomes ministry.
When every piece falls into place, it's like a dance, a delicate but powerful balancing act. The art of holding on and letting go at the same time.
You must reflect that fettered prisoners only at first feel the weight of the shackles on their legs: in time, when they have decided not to struggle against but to bear them, they learn from necessity to endure with fortitude, and from habit to endure with ease.
connect,surrender,and flow.
Affirmation: I am untouchable and unbreakable because I belong to God.
Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free.
No thought, no mind, no choice - just being silent, rooted in yourself.
Whoever is not tied to possessions, clinging neither to body nor mind, is never in bondage.
The vow that binds too quickly snaps itself.
When you have no intention then you have no tension! Be flexible.
His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him.
Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
If you want to support others you have to stay upright yourself.
In the long run there is no more liberating, no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely, and then act boldly. Action brings with it its own courage, its own energy, a growth of self-confidence that can be acquired in no other way
In each pose there should be repose.
To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands
or gets down.
Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gain'd my freedom.
Surrender to your soul and spirit.
When we had surmounted the acclivity, I was about to withdraw my arm from his, but by a slight tightening of the elbow was tacitly informed that such was not his will, and accordingly desisted.
Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness.
Hoping to Fall Out:
Leaning out as far as she can, hoping she'll fall soon, so she can stop worrying about whether it will happen or not.
undemonstrative in a burly fat-pig style
I have been held in an embrace so strong by the journey that I find I have relinquished the will to arrive.
A carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness.
Independence is not a static condition; it is a continuous conquest, and in order to reach not only freedom, but also strength, and the perfecting on one's powers, it is necessary to follow this path of unremitting toil.
They have broken the yoke of the oppressor; and this they have done not by fighting but by surrendering.
Softening what is rigid in our hearts ...
What stands if freedom fall?
I don't ever unwind. My work is my peace. If I'm not working I'm not at peace.
Those ... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like shining lights, having reached final liberation in the world.
Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.