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• Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Heart, Wrinkles, Youth

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• The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the true nature of things by seeing through the illusory nature of things. We don't come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don't come to clarity by avoiding confusion.

  Adyashanti

  Confusion, Important, Way

  Adyashanti (2010). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.49, Sounds True

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• The process of illusion & disillusionment is part of life and goes on endlessly.

  Nelson Mandela

  Life, Goes On, Process

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Conversations With Myself”, p.43, Pan Macmillan

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• Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.

  David Icke

  Love, Reality, Infinite

  David Icke (2003). “Tales from the Time Loop: The Most Comprehensive Exposé of the Global Conspiracy Ever Written and All You Need to Know to Be Truly Free”, David Icke Books

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• Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.

  Virginia Woolf

  Soul, Atmosphere, Earth

  Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.119, Oxford University Press, USA

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• listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot

  Jack Kerouac

  Silence, World, Lessons

  Jack Kerouac (1999). “Selected Letters, 1957-1969”, Viking Adult

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• It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Thinking, Knowing

  Mark Twain (1966). “Mark Twain's "Which Was the Dream?" and Other Symbolic Writings of the Later Years”, p.492, Univ of California Press

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• Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

  Sigmund Freud

  Pain, Reality, Investing

  Sigmund Freud (2014). “Reflections on War and Death”, p.10, The Floating Press

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• Reality is an illusion that occurs due to the lack of alcohol.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Beer, Reality

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• Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mystery, Wonder, Consciousness

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

  Sigmund Freud

  Strength, Death, Spiritual

  Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

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• It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.

  Sigmund Freud

  Atheist, Nice, Order

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

  Anne Lamott

  Creating, People, Trying

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• I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

  Alan Watts

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.

  Ouida

  Loss

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• There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"--I forget where.

  Laurence Sterne

  Real, Acquiescence, Definitions

  Laurence Sterne (1814). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.330

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• We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Peaceful, Cooperation, Peace Is Every Step

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• No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes.

  David Hockney

  Shapes, Matter, Canvas

  David Hockney (1977). “David Hockney”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart.

  Bill Hicks

  Lying, Heart, Reality

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• We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love is the only truth; everything else is an illusion.

  Pema Chodron

  Spiritual, Positive Thinking, Love Is

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• Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Love, Funny, Dream

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.146, Princeton University Press

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• The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Beautiful, Passion, Romance

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.35, tredition

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• Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.

  Arthur Goldberg

  Law, Age, Nuclear

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• I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

  Tom T. Hall

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

  Pierre Bayle

  Thinking, Generations, May

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