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"We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy."
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"Almost every single thing you hope publication will do for you is a fantasy, a hologram--it's the eagle on your credit card that only seems to soar."
"What you see is not real. It is a misinterpretation of our false perceptions."
"Trying to get prosperity through prophet offering is running after shadows."
"Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist Yoga an exact technique was devised for unmasking the illusion of the personality. The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen."
"Worldly knowledge (laukik gnan) is called illusion (bhranti)."
"If you will conduct a poll with most people in our world today and ask them to tell you what is the ideal life they dream about. Most people will tell you that they are dreaming of having a house on an island, but really they are spending away and whining away their lives."
"Moha (illusory vision) means new things keep arising, and one indeed sees new things; and he remains engrossed in them."
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"Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control."
"All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others."
"The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence."
"Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium."
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