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Illusion Quotes by Frederick Lenz

59 Illusion quotes by Frederick Lenz

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Frederick Lenz describes Nirvana as a state beyond all illusion—birth, death, pain, love, and time. He suggests that silence reveals the true Self, while sexuality and purpose are just different kinds of illusion. He also likens moving shadows to empty but endless illusions.

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The illusion of purpose is to be avoided. The illuion of lack of purpose is to be avoided.

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"Nothing is as it seems" - This is an illusion.

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"The dream is real but it does not last" - This is an illusion.

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"There are no illusions" - This is a gross illusion.

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There won't be emptiness. Emptiness is just another idea, another illusion.

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Birth and death are illusions, they are part of the dream.

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The illusion of selfhood, ego, a separate identity is false.

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You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering.

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In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through…

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Human beings have illusions. The enlightened don't have illusions. They see things as they are, and in that seeing, they see ecstasy…

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Humility does not live in the prison of illusion that says that this world is a dark and terrible place. Those perceptions…

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Once we've achieved perfect meditation, we're terribly trapped because that's an illusion...any enlightenment that seems ultimate is an illusion.

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None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the…

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Sometimes, as we practice jnana yoga, we feel that life has no meaning, no purpose. We feel that there is no reason…

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From my point of view, which is the point of view of no illusions, there is only winning and losing. You might…

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Reincarnation is not necessarily linear. Sometimes people actually become more immersed in darkness or illusion than they were in previous lifetimes.

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Everything that you see before you with your physical eyes is an illusion. In other words, you are not seeing correctly. Life…

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We fall into states of illusion - we forget all this. We get caught up in desires, frustrations, political movements, philosophies, religions,…

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Illusion doesn't mean that something is not real. Illusion simply means that something is less real than something else. This life and…

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The 1990's will be a determining period of time for another cycle. If humanity during this time chooses to throw away a…

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You can think whatever you want, you can create all the labels you choose, but the universe just is. You can come…

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To try and fit reincarnation into a neat mental package is very unwise. You will be very surprised when you discover that…

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You can be locked away in prison and be free if your mind is not a prison. Or you can be walking…

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What gets frustrating for some people is the fact that you might get very high, but you find yourself pulled down again.…

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Now that you've reached everything, you must slay this illusion without slaying it - without becoming caught up in the illusion of…

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None of this has ever been or will ever be; all is an appearance, all is an illusion. Illusions are truth. All…

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The pathway to enlightenment is joyful. It may sound harsh. I suggest just the opposite. It is rather easy compared to the…

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Anything you can say, think, feel, trust or feel is untrue - is an illusion. The fact that there are these things…

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We are everything and we are nothing. We are a forgotten moment. We don't even exist, which is the freeing part. We…

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All the manifest forms of existence are but illusions. They are momentary displays of consciousness, flashes of lightening in the sky. They…

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It might seem that this knowledge is cold, devoid of emotion, empty. This is another illusion.

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It is only when you have become that true Self consciously, when all these illusions have fallen away, that you will be…

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There is illusion, the way you see things now, thinking that there is a tomorrow, there is a today, there is time…

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Consciousness is the screen. The images on the screen are your perceptions, the illusion that life is solid, that there is a…

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The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an…

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Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood.…

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Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete.

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In meditation, when your thoughts are stopped, you become empty. When you are empty, your mind folds back on itself and you…

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If you are liberated then you can be in the crowd and there is no crowd. You can be surrounded by the…

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All those moments spent in concetration will give you a terrific strength and with that strength you will cut aside all illusions.

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Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance.

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Why waste your time being around people who drag you down? You don't live forever, at least in this life.

Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They are on…