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"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces."
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"The miracle centered gospel leads to getting something from nothing."
"Most people who spend their lives are dreaming of having a summer house somewhere in the suburb of their city where they could lie in the hot sun all day long, drinking coffee and juice. They think they are enjoying life, but really they are spending life."
"Trying to get prosperity through laying of hands is running after shadows."
"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."
"Trying to get prosperity through prophet offering is running after shadows."
"To believe the non-Self's intent as the Self's intent is indeed an illusion. To believe that 'I am the doer', where the doer is someone else is indeed an illusion."
"Money can make life comfortable, solve some problems and bring temporary satisfaction, but true happiness and joy is not guaranteed by money."
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"Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know."
"I can imagine that the oceanic feeling could become connected with religion later on. That feeling of oneness with the universe which is its ideational content sounds very like a first attempt at the consolations of religion, like another way taken by the ego of denying the dangers it sees threatening it in the external world."
"The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety."
"Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it."
"No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself."
"Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs."
"Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be."
"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
"We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality."
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