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Aesop

"Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."

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"Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."

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"They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy."

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"Trying to get prosperity through prophet offering is running after shadows."

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"If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered."

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"Never for one minute have I taken you for reality . . . You are a lie, you are my illness, you are a phantom . . . You are my hallucination. You are the incarnation of myself . . . of my thoughts and feelings, but only the nastiest and stupidest of them."

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"Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?"

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"As long as one is ruled by illusion, one's thinking process is also illusory and that is nothing but misery. In Gnanis' [the enlightened one's] language, there is no such thing as happiness or unhappiness."

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"When they say that, 'God takes avatar (reincarnates)' is incorrect. He is known as an avatari when last two or three incarnations (before Moksha) remain. God does not have the ability at all to do karma! Man does not have that ability either. It is due to illusion that he feels 'I did it'!"

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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."

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"Once the illusion (branti) goes away, one can see 'as it is', and that is why ignorance goes away. When ignorance goes, maya (deceit) goes. Once God's maya is gone, the solution is found."

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"Everything's fine today, that is our illusion."

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