Illusion Quotes - Page 36

• Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Karma, Men, Self

  "My View of the World" by Erwin Schrodinger, (Ch, 5), 1961.

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• The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?

  Vernor Vinge

  Running, Self, Awareness

  Vernor Vinge (2010). “A Fire Upon The Deep”, p.255, Macmillan

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• Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there…the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.

  Joe Haldeman

  Buddhism, Reality, Way

  Joe Haldeman (2014). “The Forever War”, p.38, Open Road Media

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• The art of illusion is grace itself.

  Steven Erikson

  Art, Grace

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• Do you see law and order? There is nothing but disorder, and instead of law there is the illusion of security. It is an illusion because it is built on a long history of injustices: racism, criminality, and the genocide of millions. Many people say it is insane to resist the system, but actually, it is insane not to.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Order, Law, Long

  Mumia Abu-Jamal (2003). “Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience”, p.11, South End Press

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• The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Wall, Roles, Television

  FaceBook post by Mumia Abu Jamal from Sep 02, 2011

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• With stillness comes the benediction of peace”.
  “Thinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it had a separate existence.  Through excessive reliance on thinking, reality becomes fragmented.  This fragmentation is an illusion, but seems very real while you are trapped in it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Real, Thinking, Events

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• You're a prisoner of your own illusions - about yourself and about the world.

  Dan Millman

  World, About Yourself, Prisoner

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.31, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Define yourself radically as one beloved by God.  This is the true self.  Every other identity is illusion.  God's love for you and his choice of you constitute your worth.  Accept that, and let it become the most important thing in your life.

  Brennan Manning

  Self, Choices, Important

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• I’ve learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the present and onto the future.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Past, I've Learned, Projects

  Gabrielle Bernstein (2011). “Spirit Junkie: A Radical Road to Self-Love and Miracles”, p.3, Harmony

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• I had the feeling . . . that my experience was very different from other people’s.  (Are we all under this illusion?)

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  People, Feelings, Different

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician.

  Martin Gardner

  Book, Levels, Lasts

  Introduction to "The Annotated Alice. The Definitive Edition" by Lewis Carroll, 1999.

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• Let’s get one thing straight: Mexican food takes a certain amount of time to cook. If you don’t have the time, don’t cook it. You can rush a Mexican meal, but you will pay in some way. You can buy so-called Mexican food at too many restaurants that say they cook Mexican food. But the real food, the most savory food, is prepared with time and love and at home. So, give up the illusion that you can throw Mexican food together. Just understand that you are going to have to make and take the time.

  Denise Chavez

  Giving Up, Real, Home

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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 that we bring with us from early childhood and apply to everyday life and to our lives in general. It gets stronger as we grow up, unless we are touched by the Gospel and begin the spiritual journey. This journey is a process of dismantling the monumental illusion that God is distant or absent.

  Thomas Keating

  Spiritual, Prayer, Growing Up

  Thomas Keating (2014). “Fruits and Gifts of the Spirit”, p.5, Lantern Books

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• 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 in the perishable framework of organic nature.

  Ernst Haeckel

  Mother, Men, Arrogance

  "The riddle of the universe".

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• 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 make our lives a preparation for the next life.

  Cat Stevens

  Men, Preparation, Important

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• 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 to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.

  Patrick Henry

  Song, Eye, Men

  Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention

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• 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 impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

  Howard Nemerov

  Our World, Literature, Way

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• 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 illusions of youth: as a horseman, I was never really first-rate.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Vienna, Austria, World

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• 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 illusions.

  Bruce Sterling

  Thinking, Needs, Trends

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• 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 and utter disbelief in cause and effect

  Heather O'Neill

  Years, Choices, Causes

  Heather O'Neill (2014). “Lullabies for Little Criminals”, p.243, Hachette UK

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• 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 helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success.

  Rick Renzi

  Running, Believe, Cutting

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• 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 in merciless death, a futile death that knows neither flower nor fruit has dignity as the death of a human being. If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death? No death may be called futile.

  Yukio Mishima

  Flower, Suffering, Dying

  "Yukio Mishima on Hagakure: The Samurai Ethic and Modern Japan". Book by Yukio Mishima and Jocho Yamamoto translated by Kathryn Sparling, 1977.

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• 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 ice miles running under your blades, the wind splitting open to let you through, the earth whirling around you.It's a sense of power, of command over distance and gravity, and an illusion of no longer having to move because movement is carrying you.

  Sonja Henie

  Running, Distance, Moving

  Sonja Henie (1940). “Wings on my feet”

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• The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.

  Gary Zukav

  Lonely, Men, Firsts

  Gary Zukav (1979). “The dancing Wu Li masters: an overview of the new physics”, Bantam

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