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Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.
Delusion |
Paramahansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh
Don’t make a fuss about anything. Whenever you worry, remember, you are deepening the cosmic delusion within you.
Paramahansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh
Death is not the end: it is temporary emancipation... the land to which souls go at death - they enjoy a freedom such as they never knew during their earthly life. So don’t pity the person who is passing through the delusion of death, for in a little while he will be free. Once he gets out of that delusion, he sees that death was not so bad after all. He realizes that his mortality was only a dream and rejoices that now no fire can burn him, no water can drown him; he is free and safe.
Death | Delusion | Freedom | Land | Life | Life | Little | Pity | Safe | Will |
Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him .
Delusion |
H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp.
People under delusion accumulate tainted merits but do not tread the Path. They are under the impression that to accumulate merits and to tread the Path are one and the same thing. Though their merits for alms-giving and offerings are infinite. They do not realize that the ultimate source of sin lies in the three poisons within their own mind. They expect to expiate their sins by accumulating merit. Without knowing that felicities obtained in future lives have nothing to do with the expiation of sins. Why not get rid of the sin within our own mind, for this is true repentance?
Krishna, also Kreeshna, Krsna, Lord Krishna NULL
Hypocritical, proud, and arrogant, living in delusion and clinging to their deluded ideas, insatiable in their desires, they pursue unclean ends… Bound on all sides by scheming and anxiety, driven by anger and greed, they amass by any means they can a hoard of money for the satisfaction of their cravings… Self-important, obstinate, swept away by the pride of wealth, they ostentatiously perform sacrifices without any regard for their purpose. Egotistical, violent, arrogant, lustful, angry, envious of everyone, they abuse my presence within their own bodies and in the bodies of others.
Paramahansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh
Don’t take life so seriously. This world is a terrible place; there is no safety here. But what are we to do? We must stop taking life so seriously. Delusion can be overcome by holding steadfastly to one philosophy: everything here is nothing more than God’s motion picture.
Paramahansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh
Never concentrate on your faults. By doing so you identify yourself with them. You are the one who puts the veil of delusion in front of your wisdom’s eyes. Whatsoever you think, that is what you are.
Delusion |
Peter Senge, fully Peter Michael Senge
Vision is an idle dream at best and a cynical delusion at worst - but not an achievable end.
Delusion |
Barbara Ehrenreich, born Barbara Alexander
I do not write this in a spirit of sourness or personal disappointment of any kind, nor do I have any romantic attachment to suffering as a source of insight or virtue. On the contrary, I would like to see more smiles, more laughter, more hugs, more happiness and, better yet, joy. In my own vision of utopia, there is not only more comfort, and security for everyone — better jobs, health care, and so forth — there are also more parties, festivities, and opportunities for dancing in the streets. Once our basic material needs are met — in my utopia, anyway — life becomes a perpetual celebration in which everyone has a talent to contribute. But we cannot levitate ourselves into that blessed condition by wishing it. We need to brace ourselves for a struggle against terrifying obstacles, both of our own making and imposed by the natural world. And the first step is to recover from the mass delusion that is positive thinking.
Better | Delusion | Health | Insight | Life | Life | Need | Security | Spirit | Struggle | Suffering | Vision | Talent | Blessed | Happiness |
We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Delusion | Experience | Feelings | Prison |
Suffering from election-year delusion if he thinks his record on the environment is anything to be proud of.
Delusion |
Reinhold Niebuhr, fully Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr
Without repentance those who have created peace through their power imagine that they have created pure peace: and suffer from the delusion that the enemies of their peace are God
Delusion | Peace | Power | Repentance |
Reinhold Niebuhr, fully Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr
Without repentance those who have crated peace through their power imagine that they have created pure peace: and suffer from the delusion that the enemies of their peace are God
Delusion | Peace | Power | Repentance |