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"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."

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

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

"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."

"Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world."

"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."

"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'!"

"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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"I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it."


"This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn."


"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."


"I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books."


"I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill."


"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."


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


"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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