“You don't choose because if you choose you might make the wrong choice, based upon ego or illusion. Instead, you let eternity make all the choices for you.” IfsMightChoicesBuddhismBalanceEgoIllusionEternityYou ChooseWrong Choices Author:Frederick Lenz
“Humour allows us to see that ultimately things don't make sense. The only thing that truly makes sense is letting go of anything we continue to hold on to. Our ego-mind and emotions are a dramatic illusion. Of course, we all feel that they're real: my drama, your drama, our confrontations. We create these elaborate scenarios and then react to them. But there is nothing really happening outside our mind! This is karma's cosmic joke. You can laugh about the irony of this, or you can stick with your scenario. It's your choice.” FeelsMindRealChoicesCoursesEmotionLaughingHumourDramaLetting GoEgoLaughterHappeningsJokesIllusionUltimateSticksKarmaMake SenseIronyDramaticAllowingCosmicHolding OnScenariosConfrontationReacting Author:Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
“All pain in life comes from wishing things were different than they are. Conversely, peace and happiness must come from accepting life as it is and breaking through the barriers of illusion to do so... All things that we label good or bad often hold in them surprises if we stay open. Each of us has choice in how we interpret life's events and in this way we are each responsible for our own reality.” IfsWayDifferentRealityPainChoicesWishAcceptingEventsIllusionAll ThingsResponsibleSurpriseLabelsBarriersPeace And HappinessAccepting LifePain In Life Author:Kristine Carlson
“All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. That can't be disproved, but we have no choice but to follow our senses.” HumanityChoicesCommonShareIllusionChaosSensesInsanity Author:Isaac Asimov
“However many people complain about the "red tape," it would be sheer illusion to think ... continuous administrative work can be carried out in any field except by means of officials working in offices.... The choice is only that between bureaucracy and dillettantism.” PeopleThinkingMeanWould BeChoicesFieldsOfficeIllusionRedComplainingOfficialsTapeSheerBureaucracyAdministrativeRed Tape Author:Max Weber
“True technique will know how to maintain the illusion of liberty, choice, and individuality; but these will have been carefully calculated so that they will be integrated into the mathematical reality merely as appearances!” KnowsHas BeensRealityChoicesLibertyKnow HowIllusionIndividualityAppearanceTechniqueMathematicalIntegrated Author:Jacques Ellul
“When a writer with a voice as good as Richard Christian Matheson's tells you something, you have no choice but to listen. In THE RITUAL OF ILLUSION the voices are legion, and the gaps between their testimonies drag us closer to understanding the darkly beating heart of all our, ephemeral, transfixing dreams. Dark, subtle, horrifically funny.” HeartDreamChristianChoicesUnderstandingVoiceDarkIllusionSubtleGapsRitualDragTestimonyEphemeralLegion Author:Michael Marshall Smith
“Bread sets free; but does not necessarily set free for good ends -- that dear illusion of so many generous hearts. It sets a man free to choose: it often sets free for the bad, but man has a right to that choice and to that evil, without which he is no longer a man.” MenHeartDoeEndsChoicesEvilIllusionDearBreadGenerousGenerous Heart Author:Francoise Mallet-Joris
“I believe that none can "save" his fellow man by making a choice for him. To help him, he can indicate the possible alternatives, with sincerity and love, without being sentimental and without illusion.” MenBelieveHelpingChoicesI BelieveIllusionAnd LoveFellowsAlternativesSinceritySentimentalFellow Man Book:On Being Human Source: On Being Human
“I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between "life" and "death"; between creativity and destructive violence; between reality and illusions; between objectivity and intolerance; between brotherhood-independence and dominance-submission.” MenBelieveRealityChoicesI BelieveCreativityViolenceIllusionIndependenceFundamentalsAlternativesDestructiveLife And DeathBrotherhoodIntoleranceSubmissionObjectivityDominanceBetween Life And Death Book:On Being Human Source: On Being Human
“Even in an intensely mediated world, in a world that offers at least the illusion of radical self-invention and radical freedom of choice, I as a novelist am drawn to the things you can't get away from. Because much of the promise of radical self-invention, of defining yourself through this marvelous freedom of choice, it's just a lie. It's a lie that we all buy into, because it helps the economy run.” WorldSelfHelpingRunningLyingChoicesEconomyPromiseOffersIllusionInventionRadicalNovelistsGet AwayMarvelousDefiningFreedom Of ChoiceDefine Yourself Author:Jonathan Franzen