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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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"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."

"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."

"How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child."

"What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic."

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

"Magic and miracle they are nothing but manipulation of sight and heart."

"Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything"

"The person performing the experiment becomes the object of the experiment himself, this is known as the illusion!"
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"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."


"There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die."


"The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle."


"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."
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