Delusion quotes and words of wisdom |  | ""I got this today," they say; "tomorrow I shall get that. This
wealth is mine, and that will be mine too. I have destroyed my enemies. I
shall destroy others too! Am I not like God? I enjoy what I want. I am
successful. I am powerful. I am happy. I am rich and well-born. Who is
equal to me? I will perform sacrifices and give gifts, and rejoice in my
own generosity." This is how they go on, deluded by ignorance. Bound by
their greed and entangled in a web of delusion, whirled about by a
fragmented mind, they fall into a dark hell. 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." | |  | Bhagavad-Gita
| | | "A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by
common hatred of its neighbors." | | | Dr. William Ralph Inge
| | | "All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a
philosopher." | | | Ambrose Bierce
| | | "Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself." | | | Lily Tomlin
| | | "Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another." | | | Henry Louis Mencken
| | | "RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation,
experience and reflection." | | | Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
| | | "The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane
while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary cliche,
put about by people who should be locked up. I assure you there is not
much in it. Taken as a whole, the sane are out there the sick are in here.
For example you are in here because you have delusions that sane people are
put in mental hospitals." | | | Tom Stoppard
| | | "The people never give up their liberties but under some
delusion." | | | Edmund Burke
| | | "When delusions are absent, the mind is the land of buddhas. When
delusions are present, the mind is hell. Mortals create delusions. And by
using the mind to give birth to mind they always find themselves in hell.
Bodhisattvas see through delusions. And by not using the mind to give
birth to mind they always find themselves in the land of buddhas. If you
don"t use your mind to create mind, every state of mind is empty and every
thought is still. You go from one buddha-land to another. If you use your
mind to create mind, every state of mind is disturbed and every thought is
in motion. You go from one hell to the next." | | | Bodhidharma
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Interesting Quotes
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.Henry Ford - US automobile industrialist (1863 - 1947)
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.James Joyce - Irish author (1882 - 1941)
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