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"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."

"Illusion (maya) makes one take birth, illusion makes one get married and illusion also makes one die. But here the condition is that it is not the reign of illusion. It is your own reign. It cannot happen unless you wish for it. Illusion gives the result (effect) of what you had consented to in your past life."
Explore more quotes by Tom T. Hall

"Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion."

"The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing."

"I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories."

"When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please."

"My best album is called In Search Of A Song. That was my best shot right there. My finest hour, as they say. I could listen to the whole thing all the way through. There's nothing really crammed into it."

"After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect."

"I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried."
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