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Aesop

"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."

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"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."

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"Este incredibil cA¢t de completAƒ este iluzia care ne face sAƒ credem cAƒ frumuseA£ea este A®n genere bunAƒtate."

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"I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misinterpret things to them. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it! - Don't turn the light on!"

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"They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy."

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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."

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"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."

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"Trying to get prosperity through seed of faith is running after shadows."

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

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

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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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