Illusion Quotes

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St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This is the conviction… — Thomas Keating
As our mother earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of protoplasm… — Ernst Haeckel
Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to… — Cat Stevens
A mind now clouded by the illusions of the innate darkness of life is like a tarnished mirror, but when polished, it is sure to… — Nichiren
It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen… — Patrick Henry
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with… — Howard Nemerov
I set out to become the greatest lover in Vienna, the greatest horseman in Austria, and the greatest economist in the world. Alas, for the… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
Guilt? It's this mechanism we use to control people. It's an illusion. It's a kind of social control mechanism -- and it's very unhealthy. It… — Ted Bundy
David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such… — Bruce Sterling
In Lullabies, I wanted to capture what I remembered of the drunken babbling of unfortunate twelve-year-olds: their illusions, their ludicrously bad choices, their lack of morality… — Heather O'Neill
I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in… — Rick Renzi
We tend to suffer from the illusion that we are capable of dying for a belief or theory. What Hagakure is insisting is that even… — Yukio Mishima
We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane. — Tariq Ali
If you are not a skater, you probably can't imagine what I mean. I could try to tell you by saying it's a feeling of… — Sonja Henie
The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place. — Gary Zukav
Ive said its a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians... all the magicians in the audience watching this illusion-Do they… — Chuck Close
Democracy, Republic: What do these words signify? What have they changed in the world? Have men become better, more loyal, kinder? Are the people happier?… — Haile Selassie
THE ULTIMATE METAPHYSICAL SECRET, if we dare state it so simply, is that there are no boundaries in the universe. Boundaries are illusions, products not… — Ken Wilber
Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions are primarily about reality...an effort… — Parker J. Palmer
A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual. — Marion Woodman
A life truly lived constantly burns away veils of illusion, burns away what is no longer relevant, gradually reveals our essence, until, at last, we… — Marion Woodman
I think I would rather live on the verge of falling and let my security be in the all-sufficiency of the grace of God than… — Rich Mullins
Human beings have fabricated the illusion that in the 21st century they have the technological prowess to be independent of nature. Bees underline the reality… — Achim Steiner
Much of American wealth is an illusion which is being secretly gnawed away and much of it will be completely wiped out in the near… — Howard Ruff
Despair ... is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality - it's a kind of mourning period for… — Philip Slater

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