Delusion Quotes

• The Truth doesn't need your cooperation to exist. All forms of cult, all forms of hype, all forms of delusion do require your participation in order to exist. I've looked into marginal areas of human experience -historical and otherwise- with a rational mind, and what I've found is that doorways into the miraculous are far fewer than the publicists of the New Age would have us believe. On the other hand, they are not as rare as the proponents of radical reductionism and materialism would have us believe. There are doorways out of the mundane.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Cooperation

• In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can lie and sort of justify your delusion about your "epicness." But when you're writing a memoir, you're trying to make your life epic and it's not - nobody's life is.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Effort

• You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions. When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Religious
  • Illusion
  • Assumption

• justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Justice
  • Equal
  • Delusion

• Awakening is natural,delusion is not.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Delusion
  • Awakening

• One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Life
  • Wind
  • Delusion

• There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Illusion
  • Compare
  • Liberation

• If you actually look at the etymology of the word 'hallucination', what it's come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That's the meaning of 'hallucination', to wander in the mind.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Language
  • Wander

• The sense that my world is stable and stationary, that change will never come and that all will go on continuously as it is, is the nature of all delusion.

  

  Brenda Shoshanna
  • Change
  • Sense
  • Delusion

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