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“Odd how people interested in religion spend so much time trying to convert the obvious meaning of their texts that are their authority.”

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“Our covetousness for miracles and wonders leads into self-deception”

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Author:Sunday Adelaja

“Ample figure, dazzling splendour to rest under the bed of soil; blooming dreams and withering numb; pangs of hunger, hitches of joy; dreadful pain, loudest laughter, piteous silence that echoes deep – were they all mere delusion? Yet, I wonder if they were real at least until I close these eyes! O dear! Did your own self deceive you?”

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Book:The Solitary Shores

Source: The Solitary Shores

“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitudes to them.”

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Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“I would desire every divine to beware that he tell not the unsanctified, that whoever hath the least degree of love to God for himself, and not as a means to carnal ends, shall certainly be saved ; for he would certainly deceive many thousand miserable souls that should persuade them of this (670).”

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Book:The Saints' Everlasting Rest

Source: The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“Self-deception and vanity are grievous sin. The ego is the cause of all human suffering. We suffer from life only when we fail to examine the cause of our sorrow. Letting go of destructive illusions and freeing oneself from egotism of self-pity enables a person to sense the rich intertexture of their inner world, which is the only facet of reality that we exercise exclusive dominion and control.”

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Book:Dead Toad Scrolls

Source: Dead Toad Scrolls

“Perhaps the strangest thing about this illusion of control is not that it happens but that it seems to confer many of the psychological benefits of genuine control. In fact, the one group of people who seem generally immune to this illusion are the clinically depressed, who tend to estimate accurately the degree to which they can control events in most situation.”

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Book:Stumbling on Happiness

Source: Stumbling on Happiness

“Self-deception comes from not having enough psychological strength to admit the truth and deal with the consequences that will follow when the truth is acknowledges.”

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Book:Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception

Source: Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception

“Every culture that’s ever existed has operated under the illusion that it understood 95% of reality and that the other 5% would be delivered in the next 18 months, and from Egypt forward they’ve been running around believing they had a perfect grip on things and yet we look back at every society that preceded us with great smugness at how naive they all were. Well, it never occurs to us, then, that maybe we’re whistling in the dark too! That the universe is stranger than you CAN suppose, and that that openness that that perception imparts is a great joy, a great blessing, because then you can live your life not in service to some fascistic metaphor but in service to the living mystery: the fact that you’re not going to understand it; it is not going to yield to logic; or magic; or any other technique that’s been developed…”

Culture Universe Strange Illusion Self Deception

Author:Terence McKenna

“The areas in which we felt most insecure, unsafe, unloved, uncomfortable, embarrassed, angry, and generally unresolved as a child are the areas that we will be most prone to self-deception as an adult.”

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Book:Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception

Source: Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception

“Our sweet illusions are half of them conscious illusions, like effects of colour that we know to be made up of tinsel, broken glass and rags.”

Book:The Lifted Veil

Source: The Lifted Veil