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Illusion Quotes
"Your riches cannot save you from fornication."
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"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.'"
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"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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"Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldness chill, But still it lingers in my heart. And who can tell but Heaven, at last, May answer all my thousand prayers, And bid the future pay the past With joy for anguish, smiles for tears?"
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"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..."
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"I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language."
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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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"Almost every single thing you hope publication will do for you is a fantasy, a hologram--it's the eagle on your credit card that only seems to soar."
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"A thing or one's eyes are not maya (deceit), but the attraction that occurs due to the sense is maya!"
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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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"All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their failure is ours, too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped to create... a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody-or at least some force-is tending that Light at the end of the tunnel.This is the same cruel and paradoxically benevolent bullshit has kept the Catholic Church going for so many centuries. It is also the military ethic...a blind faith in some higher and wiser "authority. The Pope, The General, The Prime Minister... all the way up to "God."
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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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"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']."
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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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"Magicians made magic but critics made it tricks."
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"Time management is essential for a work-life balance."
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"First rate magician perform first rate magic effects, second rate magician performs third rate magic effects."
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"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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"She shall scant show well that now shows best."
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"With slight misconceptions of reality we fabricate our hopes and beliefs, and we live off crusts that we call cakes, like poor children who make-believe they're happy."
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"The miracle centered gospel leads to getting something from nothing."
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"Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience."
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"Trying to get prosperity through laying of hands is running after shadows."
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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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"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."
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"Magic and miracle they are nothing but manipulation of sight and heart."
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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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"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."
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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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"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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"Love should not be polluted with friendship."
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"What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic."
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