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Ignorance Quotes by Frederick Lenz
- You can stay in the safe, secure oblivion and pain of ignorance, not knowing, and just die. You'll just die, like everyone else, and shuffle…
- The things you see are real, but they are not a complete seeing - Samsara.
- At this point you are so far away from what you really are, it's ridiculous.
- Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see is an illusion.
- None of this has ever been or will ever be; all is an appearance, all is an illusion. Illusions are truth. All illusions are real.…
- Illusions are shadows moving endlessly across the ground. The shadows are quite real but they're shadows. They have very little substance.
- All the manifest forms of existence are but illusions. They are momentary displays of consciousness, flashes of lightening in the sky. They are there for…
- We fall into states of illusion - we forget all this. We get caught up in desires, frustrations, political movements, philosophies, religions, the getting of…
- None of this exists. All important decisions in the universe occur someplace else.
- The samsara is the sense of self. I've had past experiences. I'm aware of the moment. I will have future experiences.
- The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that don't exist now…
- Personality is a manifestation of ego. Ego is the central sense of separateness that a person has from the rest of the universe. Personality is…
- Life isn't complicated. The reason it appears complicated to you is because you are in a very distorted state of mind. That's the basic premise…
- At the moment you're suffering from what we call Maya. Maya is illusion. Maya is a Sanskrit word that suggests that we have forgotten. We've…
- There is illusion, the way you see things now, thinking that there is a tomorrow, there is a today, there is time and that there…
- I don't think you see your minds. I think you see your thoughts; you see your desires; you see your relatives, friends, lovers, enemies. I…
- Samsara is the world appearance, the cycle of rebirth, the physically manifest universes and states of mind that you perceive through the medium of ego.
- This solidity is not true. The apparent solidity is the delusion of the senses and of the self. Everything is made up of infinite, intelligent…
- The burden you are carrying around is the burden of self. You seek release from that. You want to let it all go. You want…
- You can be in a state of mind for a few seconds and forget that you were ever in any other state of mind. That's…
- What gets frustrating for some people is the fact that you might get very high, but you find yourself pulled down again. There are forces…
- To suffer because of anything you see, feel or experience here in the world of moment to moment is a mistake. It is like becoming…
- The Samsara is the movement of life. And you, an individual self, a form, a moment on a wave, are bound.
- You are separate from the universe, therefore you experience it.
- As long as you exist, you are aware of the manifest universes through the senses, through feelings and through mind.
More Ignorance Quotes
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly… — Isaac Asimov
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov
- Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. — Francis of Assisi
- Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. — Mary Astell
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
- Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are… — Teresa of Avila
- If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will… — Teresa of Avila
- The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of… — Richard Bach
- There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development… — Lord Acton