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Illusion Quotes
"If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion."
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"Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish."
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"How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child."
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"A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him."
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"There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion."
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"The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages."
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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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"To imagine the Self where it is not, is called maya (deceit)."
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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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"One does not see 'what is there' and sees 'what is not there', that is called moha (illusory vision)."
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"First rate magician perform first rate magic effects, second rate magician performs third rate magic effects."
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"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."
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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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"Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world."
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"No one is a doer in this world. To claim, 'I am doing' is egoism. Illusion continues to prevail under the umbrella of egoism."
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"Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end."
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"Everything that deceives may be said to enchant."
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"Never for one minute have I taken you for reality . . . You are a lie, you are my illness, you are a phantom . . . You are my hallucination. You are the incarnation of myself . . . of my thoughts and feelings, but only the nastiest and stupidest of them."
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"For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist."
"The miracle centered gospel leads to getting something from nothing."
"Magicians made magic but critics made it tricks."
"Moha (illusory vision) means new things keep arising, and one indeed sees new things; and he remains engrossed in them."
"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."
"With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you - that's my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you."
"They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered. They both seemed to have arrived there with an extraordinary innocence as though a series of pure accidents had driven them together, so many accidents that at last they were forced to conclude that they were for each other. They had arrived with clean hands, or so it seemed, after no traffic with the merely curious and clandestine."
"Worldly knowledge (laukik gnan) is called illusion (bhranti)."
"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."
"Magic and miracle they are nothing but manipulation of sight and heart."
"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."
"She shall scant show well that now shows best."
"Trying to get prosperity through prophet offering is running after shadows."
"It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'"
"What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic."
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