Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can… — Pema Chodron 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
Ministry is a very confronting service. It does not allow people to live with illusions of immortality and wholeness. It keeps reminding… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself. — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course,… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
the illusion never really dissipates that you can lose twenty pounds in one night by cutting out dinner. — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
What is actually happening is often less important than what appears to be happening. — William V. Shannon Copy Share Image
You're a prisoner of your own illusions - about yourself and about the world. — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The flower inside the fruit that is both its parent and its child. Decadent as ancestors. The portal and that which passes.… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
The way you're singing in your sleep The way you look before you leap The strange illusions that you keep You don't… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
God has this...hobby. He creates perfection. This world is not perfect. We have to learn to separate illusions from reality. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I am convinced that those who get themselves involved in the machinery of power politics, even for the purpose of destroying it,… — Vinoba Bhave Copy Share Image
Reason dissipates the illusions of life, but does not console us for their departure. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
The illusion for each soul is created by it intentions. Therefore, the illusion is alive at each moment with the most appropriate… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
All things look good from far away and it is man's eternally persistent childlike faith in the reality of that illusion that… — Rockwell Kent Copy Share Image
But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler. — Perry Christie Copy Share Image
