Was it really this easy, once you escaped, to just not care?
There is no governor anywhere. You are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. If anybody could go into dhyana at will, nobody could be controlled - by fear of prison, by fear of whips or electroshock, by fear of death, even. All existing society is based on keeping those fears alive, to control the masses. Ten people who know would be more dangerous than a million armed anarchists.
The feminist movement has been important to me because it's made me feel less odd and also because it has made me understand some of the pressures on women which I was lucky enough to have escaped, perhaps because of my eccentricity or the oddness of my upbringing.
If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.
Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.
A holy relationship is where the brokenness and wounds of the world are not escaped so much as as transformed by love, not hidden from but risen above.
I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.
When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles.
In reality, we haven't escaped the gravity of life at all. We are still beholden to ecological laws, the same as any other life-form.
At that time a lot of young men didn't want to go to the war and kill. This guy that I fell in love with was one of those so he escaped to Canada and I followed him.
Sometimes there are historical moments when a country's course could be turned one way or the other, when fate can be escaped.
I've been in a treatment center for drinkin'. I stayed for two days, then escaped.
There isn't a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God.
On its own, having escaped my grasp, the spool I had loosed was unwinding.
[M*A*S*H] didn't get released by FOX, it escaped.
Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements.
There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.
I had just lot my best friend, barely escaped having my life sucked out by a psychotic burning girl, committed treason and nearly gotten the guy I liked killed by a crazy faerie. What were hairy legs compared to that?
I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series.
