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Tag Name "Illusion" (1305)

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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
Jack Kornfield
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Consciousness is the screen. The images on the screen are your perceptions, the illusion that life is solid, that there is a material universe.
Frederick Lenz
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It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.
Ellis Peters
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I don't drink or do any drugs. I never have and I never will. I don't need them. I'm a black woman from the land of the free, home of the brave, and I figure I don't need another illusion.
Bertice Berry
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When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. …People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.
Rumi
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Laugh with people laughing, cry with people crying, but don't fall into the river of world illusion. Stay on the banks.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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An illusion can never go faster than the speed limit of reality.
Akiane Kramarik
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Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
Yann Martel
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
Carlos Santana
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An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
Arthur Miller
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The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.
Iris Murdoch
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Hope cherishes no illusions, nor does it yield to cynicism.
James Keller
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What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen he's become a different person.
Edith Head
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The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.
Sigmund Freud
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I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.
Julian Casablancas
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In this way, a permanent energy field of a pure and high frequency will arise between you. No illusion, no pain, no conflict, nothing that is not you, and nothing that is not love can survive in it. This represents the the fulfillment of the divine transpersonal purpose of your relationship.
Eckhart Tolle
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People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man... I'm the boss.
Lily Allen
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The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion.
Claude Bernard
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Change from the inside out involves a steadfast gaze upon our Lord that's life changing because it reflects a deep turning from a commitment to self-sufficiency. Without repentance, a look at Christ provides only the illusion of comfort.
Larry Crabb
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His lifetime was less than a fraction of a second in infinity. Or maybe he did not even exist maybe human beings, the planets, everything in Creation were a dream...an illusion. He smiled with humility when he remembered.
Isabel Allende
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Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.
Haruki Murakami
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
Joseph Conrad
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It is an illusion to suppose that a Dictator makes himself at most he seizes an opportunity made for him by passive, stupid, incompetent, and above all, unsatisfied and fearful men.
Susan Stebbing
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