Delusion Quote by Sebastian Faulks

“All genuine epiphanies seem to follow this model: their defining quality is the relinquishment of delusion. The initial fear is that one has lost…

— Steven Pressfield

The material world has only been constructed at the price of taking the self, that is, mind, out of it, removing it; mind is…

— Erwin Schrodinger

“To be conscious of being unconscious and being a victim of self-delusionning , is really something that demands admiration and contemplation !”

— The Night Gazer Nomad

Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of…

— Joan Didion

“The disowned part of self is an energy - an emotion or desire or need, that has been shamed every time it emerged. These…

— John Bradshaw

“When my self is no longer the all-consuming preoccupation it once was, when I see it as one narrative thread among myriad others, when…

— Stephen Batchelor

“Self-mortification, far from producing liberation from material things, is far more likely to cause either an unhinged mind, delusions or a masochistic taste for…

— Idries Shah

In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart.

— Donald G. Mitchell

“No amount of self-sufficiency could dispel the craving he still felt for that person we no longer talked about; that person who'd taken him…

— Sarah Winman

Today give up false mental attachments and beliefs! Free yourself from the delusion that anything external can fulfill the hunger of your soul for…

— Michael Beckwith

Ones flaws and ones indecisive moments does not describe nor represent ones inner self*

— Nhlanhla Radebe

“The self,” Blackmore writes, “is just a fleeting impression that arises with each experience and fades away again. . . . There is no inner self,” she…

— Sy Montgomery