Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Merton

Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.

Zelda Fitzgerald

One illusion is as good as another.

Elie Wiesel

In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.

T. S. Eliot

Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.

Richard Beymer

I was sort of caught up in my own web of illusion.

Rajneesh

Death is the greatest illusion of all.

Melody Beattie

Control is an illusion ...

Nada Doumani

Maybe it was an illusion to think people would understand after 23 years that we are unbiased. I can't understand why we've been targeted.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

Georges Bernanos

The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions.

Elizabeth Janeway

I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.

Anne Heche

Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now

Thomas Merton

One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you.

Isaac Disraeli

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.