The secret of Greek Art is its imitation of nature even to the minutest details; whereas the secret of Indian Art is to represent the ideal. The energy of the Greek painter is spent in perhaps painting a piece of flesh, and he is so successful that a dog is deluded into taking it to be a real bit of meat and so goes to bite it. Now, what glory is there in merely imitating nature? Why not place an actual bit of flesh before the dog?
Don't be deluded into believing that the titular heads of the networks control what appears on their networks. They all have better taste.
Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.
When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.
If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.
No matter how confused or deluded we may be at the moment, the underlying and essential nature of our being is clear and pure
We have the ability to effect a great positive change in the world, starting with the training of our own minds and the overcoming of our deluded conditioning. Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness; it is a revolutionary stance from the inside out, for the benefits of all beings in existence.
If you submit to the ocean, you drown. If you try to control the ocean, then you're deluded. You learn how to live with the ocean. You learn how to float, to swim, to be a part of it, to be with it. That is the nature of the Pagan's relationship with nature.
If someone as deluded as I was can be brought out of homosexuality then surely anyone can.
Two people who are a little bit deluded in each other's favour. That's what love is, isn't it?
The risks involved in the pursuit of magic are--put simply--either getting frightened by unpleasant perceptions or becoming deluded. Unfortunately it is possible to suffer from both symptoms at the same time.
The deluded mind is the mind affectively burdened by intellect. Thus, it cannot move without stopping and reflecting on itself. This obstructs its native fluidity.
The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people.
Who was born first, you or the world? As long as you give first place to the world, you are bound by it; once you realize, beyond all trace of doubt, that the world is in you and not you in the world, you are out of it. Of course your body remains in the world and of the world, but you are not deluded by it.
. . . to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.
When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.
We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.
There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.
