The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
As we increasingly become aware of the One Life breathing in each brother form of life, we learn the meaning of compassion,… — Christmas Humphreys Copy Share Image
Banks and churches and courtrooms all depend on the appurtenances of theatre. On illusion. Banks, the illusion of stability and honourable dealings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The master and the student on the journey to mastery, knows that the illusions are the illusions, decides why they are there,… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
She felt the essence of herself pulled finer and smaller like those streams of spun glass that pull and stretch till there… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It's still popular to ... insist that globalization is a rising tide that lifts all boats, but the hard reality is that… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
Yet know this: there is no such thing as an incorrect path - for on this journey you cannot "not get" where… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The past is an interpretation. The future is on illusion. The world does not more through time as if it were a… — Shams Tabrizi Copy Share Image
They will say I smoked cigarettes and marijuana, cursed hoarse as a crow in all my languages, and loved morphine and Demerol… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
You’ll join me sooner than you know in a place with . . . no illusions, where the truth is the only… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“I say “illusion” of choice because, in many cases, the nature of their choices hardly reaches the level of will, but of… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
In this way, a permanent energy field of a pure and high frequency will arise between you. No illusion, no pain, no… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
When the Pleiadians speak of letting go, they transmit a letting go energy through our energetic field. As a human being, we've… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
The spiritual life is the real life; all else is illusion and deception. Only those who are attached to God alone are… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Now let me be clear - I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
“You are the stuff of which consumer profiles – American Dream: Educated Middle-Class Model – are made. When you're staying at the… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
There are television sets in every home, every restaurant, every hotel room, every shopping mall-now they’re even small enough to carry in… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
“The world exists because your mind exists. If your mind didn’t exist, there would be no world. As you look at these… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“There is a vast difference between sakshibhaav [being a witness; witnessing state] and Gnata-Drashta bhaav [Knower-Seer state]. Some saints may have attained… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Blame is a Defense Against Powerlessness Betrayal trauma changes you. You have endured a life-altering shock, and are likely living with PTSD… — Sandra Lee Dennis Copy Share Image
There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
If you are forced to confront your fears on a daily basis, they disintegrate, like illusions when viewed up close. Maybe being… — Deborah Feldman Copy Share Image
“He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been granted the secret of motion, his… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
True freedom has more to do with following the North Star than going whichever way the wind blows. Sometimes it seems like… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
Religion's biggest crime is to slow down the Human's Intellectual Evolution! It creates an illusion as if there is a safe port… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Therefore, philosophy does not give sense in mind happiness. It keeps in mind the only truth. However, it is very possible that… — Marcel Conche Copy Share Image
It's the same with menus and men and just about anything else: we think we're choosing things for ourselves, but in fact… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to… — Holly Lisle Copy Share Image
“You are off on a winding and difficult road, which you conceive to be wide and straight, an Autobahn you can travel… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
A system that rewards politicians skilled at campaigning - which is the art of creating an illusion - and that puts hundreds… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
“The illusion that one has understood the past feeds the further illusion that one can predict and control the future. These illusions… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
We act, though, not under a utopian illusion that you or I or anyone or everyone together can rid this world of… — David Platt Copy Share Image
“Observe the difference between your attitude to illusions and mine. You have to defend the religious illusion with all your might. If… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There is an unbroken chain of opposition to the introduction of economic freedom and to the capitalist autonomy of the economic sphere...… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The afternoon is bright, with spring in the air, a mild March afternoon, with the breath of April stirring, I am alone… — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image