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"Magic and miracle they are nothing but manipulation of sight and heart."
"When the wrong belief [of 'I am Chandubhai'] goes away, the inner burning [antar daah, inner suffering] goes away. Inner burning is the result of the illusion [of 'I am Chandubhai']."
"Moha (illusory vision) means new things keep arising, and one indeed sees new things; and he remains engrossed in them."
"Worldly knowledge (laukik gnan) is called illusion (bhranti)."
"They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered. They both seemed to have arrived there with an extraordinary innocence as though a series of pure accidents had driven them together, so many accidents that at last they were forced to conclude that they were for each other. They had arrived with clean hands, or so it seemed, after no traffic with the merely curious and clandestine."
"Most people who spend their lives are dreaming of having a summer house somewhere in the suburb of their city where they could lie in the hot sun all day long, drinking coffee and juice. They think they are enjoying life, but really they are spending life."
"Infinite mercy flows continuallyBut you're asleep and can't see it.The sleeper's robe goes on drinking river waterWhile he frantically hunts mirages in dreamsAnd runs continually here and there shouting,"There'll be water further on, I know!"It's this false thinking that blocks himFrom the path that leads to himself,By always saying, "Further on!"He's become estranged from "here":Because of a false fantasyHe's driven from reality."
Explore more quotes by John Steinbeck
"I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool."
"I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?"
"Everything seems to work with a recurring rhythm except life. There is only one birth and only one death. Nothing else is like that."
"You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect."
"And don't worry about losing. If i is right, it happens - the main thing is not to hurry.Nothing good gets away."
"Why do men like me want sons?" he wondered. "It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone."
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