Illusion Quotes

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The belief that a personal life exists apart from God creates experience disconnected from God. This is painful and frustrating. Our spiritual work is to… — Michael Beckwith
Privative appropriation and domination are thus originally imposed and felt as a positive right, but in the form of a negative universality. Valid for everyone,… — Raoul Vaneigem
If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an illusion… — Benito Mussolini
The achievement of freedom is hardly possible without the felt mourning. This ability to mourn, i.e, to give up the illusion of a happy childhood,… — Alice Miller
Maybe the reason it's easier to shrug away one who has made us their secret love is simply because we know our own flaws; we… — Stefanie Schneider
Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do… — Bob Dylan
The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion — Coco Chanel
The sun never sets. It is only an appearance due to the observer's limited perspective. And yet, what a sublime illusion it is. — Eckhart Tolle
The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners. — Albert Camus
A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. — Helen Rowland
Deep down we all suspect that something is very wrong with the way we perceive life but we try very, very hard not to notice… — Adyashanti
Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love, in service to mankind. Within the worldly illusion, we all have… — Marianne Williamson
The worlds of Truth (love) and illusion (fear) are like parallel universes; with every thought we make a choice which one to inhabit — Marianne Williamson
...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that… — Sigmund Freud
When we are in the grasp of illusion - or, for that matter, whenever we have a new idea - instead of searching for ways… — Leonard Mlodinow
Have felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it's there in… — Freeman Dyson
Exercise is the most awful illusion. The secret is a lot of aspirin and marrons glaces. — Noel Coward
The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself for what you are now. What you lack in… — Bruce Lee
We have indeed been out in space, but some are under the illusion that we have been off Earth. In reality humans have never been… — Thomas Berry
By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal… — Sydney Pollack
I think on death as the apparent end of the illusions that encompass us. They all have a sudden and unexpected end, that challenges any… — Vachel Lindsay
Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness. — Thomas Merton
Our illusions-the beliefs we hold on to-are the very doorways to our freedom. We simply have to enter through them without grasping or pushing away.… — Adyashanti
When you are free from delusion, you can enjoy illusion. Enjoy the dream but enjoy the dream being free. — Mooji
A [wo]man who is unconscious of [her/]himself acts in a blind, instinctive way and is in addition fooled by all the illusions that arise when… — Carl Jung

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