Delusion Quotes

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If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.

That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

Where is the delusion when truth is known? Where is the disease when the mind is clear? Where is death when the Breath is controlled? Therefore surrender to Yoga.

Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness.

Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.

The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.

Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

When you are free from delusion, you can enjoy illusion. Enjoy the dream but enjoy the dream being free.

Those desiring to escape from suffering hasten right toward suffering. With the very desire for happiness, out of delusion they destroy their own happiness as if it were an enemy

The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.

One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Vision without execution is delusion.

It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.

If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.

To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.

I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.

As long as humankind recklessly proceeds in the fateful delusion of being biologically fated for triumph, nothing essential will change.

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.

Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.

This is no world. It is God Himself. In delusion we call it world.

Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment.

Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.

Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.

Humans see what they want to see.

Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him.

Oh son, watch the illusory spectacle! All birth and death is projected by delusion, not existing in reality. I am beyond coming and going.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.

Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.

I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.

At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion.

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes.

Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a dysfunctional delusion.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

Greed is an imperfection that defiles the mind; hate is an imperfection that defiles the mind; delusion is an imperfection that defiles the mind.

And this is what has taken place. The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each other; it is to generalize plunder under pretense of organizing it.

I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.

We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.