Ignorance Quotes
2444 Ignorance quotes by 1417 unique authors
-
The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing…
— Barbara Kingsolver
-
The things you see are real, but they are not a complete seeing - Samsara.
— Frederick Lenz
-
At this point you are so far away from what you really are, it's ridiculous.
— Frederick Lenz
-
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.
— Frederick Lenz
-
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.…
— Frederick Lenz
-
Illusions are shadows moving endlessly across the ground. The shadows are quite real but they're shadows. They have very little substance.
— Frederick Lenz
-
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…
— Frederick Lenz
-
We fall into states of illusion - we forget all this. We get caught up in desires, frustrations, political movements, philosophies, religions, the getting of…
— Frederick Lenz
-
None of this exists. All important decisions in the universe occur someplace else.
— Frederick Lenz
-
The samsara is the sense of self. I've had past experiences. I'm aware of the moment. I will have future experiences.
— Frederick Lenz
-
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…
— Frederick Lenz
-
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…
— Frederick Lenz
-
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…
— Frederick Lenz
-
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…
— Frederick Lenz
-
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…
— Frederick Lenz
-
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…
— Frederick Lenz
-
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.
— Frederick Lenz
-
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…
— Frederick Lenz
-
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…
— Frederick Lenz
-
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…
— Frederick Lenz
-
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…
— Frederick Lenz
-
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…
— Frederick Lenz
-
The Samsara is the movement of life. And you, an individual self, a form, a moment on a wave, are bound.
— Frederick Lenz
-
You are separate from the universe, therefore you experience it.
— Frederick Lenz
-
As long as you exist, you are aware of the manifest universes through the senses, through feelings and through mind.
— Frederick Lenz
Who Wrote These Ignorance Quotes
1,417 authors contributed a total of 2,444 Ignorance Quotes, led by these top contributors: