“Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see is an illusion.” GrowthIgnoranceBirthIllusionCyclesDecay Author:Frederick Lenz
“The pains that you suffer, the loneliness that you encounter, the experiences that are disappointing or distressing, the addictions and seeming pitfalls of your life are each doorways to awareness. Each offers you an opportunity to see beyond the illusion that serves as the balancing and growth of your soul.” SoulPainSufferingOpportunityGrowthAwarenessLonelinessOffersIllusionAddictionYour SoulEncountersSeemingDisappointingDoorwaysPitfallsDistressing Author:Gary Zukav
“So now that the illusion of infinite growth is being exposed, the corresponding ballooning entitlements that enticed the larger public to become complicit in the illusion are becoming unglued.” GrowthBecomingIllusionInfiniteExposedEntitlementCorresponding Author:Charles Hugh Smith
“People have put a lot of faith in the government's ability to get growth going in China. People have this, what I think, illusion that there are six people in China who really have their hand on every button. And what we're learning is, it's a very big economy and they're not that good at it.” PeopleThinkingHandsBigsGovernmentGrowthAbilityEconomySixIllusionChinaButtons Author:David Wessel
“When you've got a economy in which 40 percent of economic growth is happening in the financial sector, that turns out that was all an illusion, that it wasn't growth based on real products and services, but just a bunch of paper shuffling and a house of cards, then what's gonna emerge, at some point, is a sense of resentment, a sense that the system's rigged, and it's not working for ordinary people. And it's not fulfilling the basic American dream.” PeopleRealDreamHouseGrowthEconomyEconomicIllusionFinancialResentmentAmerican DreamFulfillingOrdinary PeopleEconomic Growth Author:Barack Obama