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"I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury."
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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."
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"Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up."
"Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737."
"Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them."
"In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style."
"It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue."
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