Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.” — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
I am discovering how my consciousness dominating addictions create my illusory version of the changing world of people and situations around me. — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
I urge people to be a scientist about what they want and ask themselves why they want it so badly. Perhaps they… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
“This world is full of forms that are illusory, and the values are all wrong, the proportions are out of focus. The… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
More than anything, I think everything about appearance is illusory. People see you, and they think they understand what you're projecting, but… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
Regulation - which is based on force and fear - undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
In a deep metaphysical sense, all that is conditioned is illusory. All phenomena are literally 'appearances,' the outer masks in which the… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The people who seem to have a lock on power get swept out in a couple of years. So it's naïve to… — George Meyer Copy Share Image
Those who have overcome self-will and become instruments to do God's work can accomplish tasks which are seemingly impossible, but they experience… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
The culture industry perpetually cheats its consumers of what it perpetually promises. The promissory note which, with its plots and staging, it… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Sorcery breaks no law of nature because there is no Natural Law, only the spontaneity of natura naturans, the tao. Sorcery violates… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
The boom produces impoverishment. But still more disastrous are its moral ravages. It makes people despondent and dispirited. The more optimistic they… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In our everyday garden grow the rosemary, juniper, ferns and plane trees, perfectly tangible and visible. For these plants that have an… — Leo Lionni Copy Share Image
But deepest of all illusory Appearances, for hiding Wonder, as for many other ends, are your two grand fundamental world-enveloping Appearances, SPACE… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In Lucretius, sexual desire is considered real and genuine, whereas love is illusory. Venus, the goddess who represents the power of sexual… — Paul Ludwig Landsberg Copy Share Image
When I was 17 until, I don't know, 20, I had this massive, baseless confidence. This very clear idea of myself and… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
The opposition of instinct and reason is mainly illusory. Instinct, intuition, or insight is what first leads to the beliefs which subsequent… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Illusory knowledge is knowledge based on the belief that, 'I am Chandubhai' and real Knowledge is Knowledge based on the right belief of,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
With the practice of meditation you can move into other states of mind, sort of ungluing the glue that binds you to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
L.A. is a very illusory place. You don't really know who your friends are here because more often than not, it seems… — Kerli Copy Share Image
Oh son, watch the illusory spectacle! All birth and death is projected by delusion, not existing in reality. I am beyond coming… — Dzongsar Khyentse Chokyi Lodro Copy Share Image
Does one get faith by mere studying of books? Too much reading creates confusion. The Master used to say that one should… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
“We have arrived here in this illusory place. Now we just have to figure out how to deal with this grand illusion… — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
All is a play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. You can know the false only. The true you must yourself be. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Online gambling is very seductive and very illusory. It can seem like a really good idea. It can seem like what people… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
After generations of living under medical tutelage, which provides us with protection (albeit illusory) against "dangerous drugs", we have failed to cultivate… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The promotion of the culture of life should be the highest priority in our societies...If the right to life is not defended… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Life is there ahead of you and either one tests oneself in its challenges or huddles in the valleys of a dreamless… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Feuerbach ... recognizes ... "even love, in itself the truest, most inward sentiment, becomes an obscure, illusory one through religiousness, since religious… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Bangkok 8 is one of the most startling and provocative mysteries that I've read in years. The characters are marvelously unique, the… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
“All the pains in this world are assumed pains. It is ‘wrong belief’! People have the illusion of pain. This illusion is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Sydney Smith playfully says that common sense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
