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My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.

Andreas Gursky

Track, Desire, World

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The Divine realm extends to the earthly; but the later, illusory in nature, does not contain the essence of Reality.

Mahavatar Babaji

Reality, Essence, Doe

"Autobiography of a Yogi". Book by Paramahansa Yogananda, 1946.

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To transcend the identification with the body one has to realize the auspiciousness and divinity residing within each cell of the body. One needs to realize the illusory nature of the body.

Amit Ray

Cells, Needs, Body

Amit Ray, Banani Ray (2012). “OM Sutra: The Pathway to Enlightenment”, p.27, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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Perfectionism is a perpetual flight into an illusory future that cannot be attained.

Gary Zukav

Flight, Perfectionism, Perpetual

FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Dec 29, 2014

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...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 no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction.

Sigmund Freud

Religious, Facts, Illusion

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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As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed...magnifice nt. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.

Neil Armstrong

Moon, Silver, Surface

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What is the right time [to discuss theology]? Whenever we are free from the mire and noise without, and our commanding faculty is not confused by illusory, wandering images, leading us, as it were, to mix fine script with ugly scrawling, or sweet-smelling scent with slime. We need actually 'to be still' (Ps. 46:10) in order to know God, and when we receive the opportunity, 'to judge uprightly' (Ps. 75:2) in theology.

Gregory of Nazianzus

Christian, Sweet, Confused

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I am discovering how my consciousness dominating addictions create my illusory version of the changing world of people and situations around me.

Ken Keyes Jr.

People, Addiction, World

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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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When I was 17 until, I don't know, 20, I had this massive, baseless confidence. This very clear idea of myself and how I would achieve success, which involved making decisions. I saw myself picking up the phone and saying 'Absolutely not' or 'Definitely yes.' Having control. Except you have to figure out whether the way you think at 19 or 20 has any value. And eventually I understood, with all that control, which was probably illusory, I wasn't progressing. So now I'm relinquishing a bit. I'll be a tiny bit naked.

Robert Pattinson

Thinking, Phones, Ideas

"Robert Pattinson Shows Us His Sexy Side in Details". Details Magazine, www.popsugar.com. February 13, 2010.

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Paraphrased: Among the degrees of the universal Manifestation, each sentient creature typically experiences an illusory sense of autonomy. At the same time, with or without the creature's awareness, the creature subsists eternally as an "immutable prototype" in the divine Knowledge.

Abdelkader El Djezairi

Knowledge, Degrees, Awareness

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When you awaken, you know that everything that occurs at the level of mind is illusory in nature and so you no longer believe in it as the truth of life. It is sometimes happy and sometimes sad, because it is a world of duality. You relax and accept the dual nature of the world of the mind and the world of experience within time. This will create balance within duality which will open the doorway to Oneness.

Leonard Jacobson

Believe, Oneness, Mind

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The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world

Ramana Maharshi

Real, World, Brahman

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As soon as the mouth is opened, evils spring forth. People either neglect the root and speak of the branches, or neglect the reality of the 'illusory' world and speak only of Enlightenment. Or else they chatter of cosmic activities leading to transformations, while neglecting the Substance from which they spring--indeed, there is NEVER any profit in discussion.

Huangbo Xiyun

Spring, Reality, Roots

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The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom. They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.

Ludwig von Mises

Freedom, Ideas, Government

Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.18, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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Rooting in work is crucial to any accomplishment. Rooting in mere enthusiasm will in the long run force illusory measures to keep the fires of empty enthusiasm going. And this makes politics and politicians.

Wilhelm Reich

Running, Fire, Long

Writings by Wilhelm Reich, April 19, 1951.

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Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty happens to be associated with the sight of some human being, the transference of love is made possible, at any rate in an illusory manner. But it is all the beauty of the world, it is universal beauty, for which we yearn.

Simone Weil

Beauty, Love Is, Sight

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The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use it) does not have the passion to rip himself away from either the coils of Reflection or the seductive ambiguities of Reflection; nor do the surroundings and times have any events or passions, but rather provide a negative setting of a habit of reflection, which plays with some illusory project only to betray him in the end with a way out: it shows him that the most clever thing to do is nothing at all.

Soren Kierkegaard

Clever, Rip, Passion

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Electronic communication is an instantaneous and illusory contact that creates a sense of intimacy without the emotional investment that leads to close friendships.

Clifford Stoll

Communication, Science, Technology

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There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.

Bill Keller

Camaraderie, Faux, Connectedness

"The Twitter Trap" by Bill Keller, www.nytimes.com. May 18, 2011.

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The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and our frustrations are unhappy.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Frustration, Humanity

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With the practice of meditation you can move into other states of mind, sort of ungluing the glue that binds you to a particular perceptual mode, a way of seeing life which is an illusory one.

Frederick Lenz

Moving, Buddhism, Practice

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Although the events we appear to perceive in dreams are illusory, our feelings in response to dream content are real. Indeed, most of the events we experience in dreams are real; when we experience feelings, say, anxiety or ecstasy, in dreams, we really do feel anxious or ecstatic at the time.

Stephen LaBerge

Dream, Real, Anxiety

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The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.

Eckhart Tolle

Giving, Anxiety, Anticipation

Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.34, New World Library

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Hasn't knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Knowledge, Truth Is, Crippled

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