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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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"What you see is not real. It is a misinterpretation of our false perceptions."
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"Beauty is an illusion."
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"Trying to get prosperity through prophet offering is running after shadows."
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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."
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"Worldly knowledge (laukik gnan) is called illusion (bhranti)."
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"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."
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"Moha (illusory vision) means new things keep arising, and one indeed sees new things; and he remains engrossed in them."
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"We are the source of infinite love, infinite joy, and infinite happiness, but we spend our whole life looking for love, joy and happiness. How foolish is this?"
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"It is an illusion that money brings happiness."
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"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."
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"You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot."
Society
"Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job."
Time
"I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old."
Old
"It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else."
Sense
"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes."
Nation
"If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed."
Thought
"A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper."
Freedom
"You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas."
Heart
"A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later."
Music
"There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die."
Encouragement
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