“We fall into states of illusion - we forget all this. We get caught up in desires, frustrations, political movements, philosophies, religions, the getting of a living, the pain of a body, the pleasure of a body.” StatesPhilosophyBodyPainPoliticalDesireFallForgetPleasureMovementIgnoranceIllusionCaughtFrustrationCaught UpPolitical Movements Author:Frederick Lenz
“You can be in a state of mind for a few seconds and forget that you were ever in any other state of mind. That's what we mean by illusion.” MindMeanStatesForgetIgnoranceIllusionSecondsState Of Mind Author:Frederick Lenz
“The idea of achieving security through national armament is, at the present state of military technique, a disastrous illusion.” IdeasStatesAchieveSecurityMilitaryIllusionTechniqueArmament Book:Ideas and Opinions Source: Ideas and Opinions
“Though it is disguised by the illusion that a bureaucracy accountable to a majority of voters, and susceptible to the pressure of organized minorities, is not exercising compulsion, it is evident that the more varied and comprehensive the regulation becomes, the more the state becomes a despotic power as against the individual. For the fragment of control over the government which he exercises through his vote is in no effective sense proportionate to the authority exercised over him by the government.” StatesGovernmentIndividualExerciseAuthorityIllusionVotePressureMajorityOrganizedMinoritiesVotersRegulationEvidentBureaucracyFragmentsCompulsionComprehensiveSusceptible Author:Walter Lippmann
“The president(Obama) comparing him to a kid in the back of a classroom, I think, is very indicative of the president's lack of appreciation of who Vladimir Putin is. He's an old KGB colonel that has no illusions about our relationship, does not care about a relationship with the United States, continues to oppress his people, continues to act in an autocratic fashion.” PeopleThinkingDoeStatesCareKidsPresidentUnitedUnited StatesFashionIllusionAppreciationComparePresident ObamaClassroomOur RelationshipPutinColonelsKgb Author:John McCain
“It isn't so much that God is the unified state of consciousness that each of us came from and will return to, but more so that God is the creative energy flowing between all states of consciousness. God is in the land beyond the mountains, but God is also in the mountains and in the valley of illusions cradled within the mountains. God is not one thing or another, rather God flows between and through all things.” StatesEnergyConsciousnessCreativeOne ThingLandReturnMountainIllusionFlowAll ThingsValleysUnifiedStates Of ConsciousnessCreative EnergyAll State Book:The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure Source: The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure