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Illusion Quotes
"You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems."
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"Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality."
9
"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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"Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten."
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"You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow."
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"Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow."
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"We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy."
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"It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false."
5
"Illusion means to weigh right and wrong with the same scale."
5
"There is no such thing as relationships in this world. It is really a self-created net. Do these cows-buffalos have any relationships? They don't have a mother-in-law, no father-in-law..."
5
"We have an illusion of security, we don't have security."
5
"To believe the control is in your hands when it is in the hands of some other power, is indeed a wrong belief (bhranti, illusion). If one were to understand even this much, he will find a solution. When people begin to understand that the power is in the hands of something else, then the wrong belief [illusion] will go away to a little extent."
5
"There's also something of an illusion in that, you can perhaps record a TV thing one month and complete a book the next and then be in a play. Then, if they all come out at once, it looks as if you're actually juggling a million things."
5
"A thing or one's eyes are not maya (deceit), but the attraction that occurs due to the sense is maya!"
5
"Forever' is an illusion that human beings promise each other when they are horny, or, trying to appear holy."
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"Your riches cannot save you from fornication."
5
"When the wrong belief [of 'I am Chandubhai'] goes away, the inner burning [antar daah, inner suffering] goes away. Inner burning is the result of the illusion [of 'I am Chandubhai']."
4
"Money can make life comfortable, solve some problems and bring temporary satisfaction, but true happiness and joy is not guaranteed by money."
4
"The person performing the experiment becomes the object of the experiment himself, this is known as the illusion!"
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"As long as one is ruled by illusion, one's thinking process is also illusory and that is nothing but misery. In Gnanis' [the enlightened one's] language, there is no such thing as happiness or unhappiness."
4
"Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion."
4
"When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction."
4
"The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression."
4
"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet."
4
"I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury."
4
"Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them."
4
"They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion."
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"What staggers me is not the persistence of illusion, but the persistence of the world in the face of illusion."
4
"Many realities hidden behind wall of perception."
3
"Trying to get prosperity through laying of hands is running after shadows."
3
"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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"Don't trust a mirror that only tells you how wonderful you look."
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"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it."
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"Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself."
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