illusions

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#Illusions:

We all have illusions. We can hardly live without them. Most of the time they are harmless thoughts about things that are usually unattainable. When a person sees something that they want and then dreams of having it. Whenever someone holds an opinion based on what they think is true, or in some cases what should be true, rather than what actually is true, then that is an illusion. Illusions sometimes help people cope with painful situations, but in the end, illusions are only a false escape from reality.

"Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue.

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The thinker is an illusion

--in truth, there is only the thinking.

There is only its percwiving. There is only its knowing and you are that knowing presence in which all such apparent happenings appear.

Do not believe you are attached to your thoughts. Watch each appear, but remain unconcerned, unbothered and uninvolved with their content.

You are not the thinker of yor thoughts, so do not be boastful or sorrowful for whatever happens to appear. Let each one go--cling not--allow them to freely pass like a dandelion floating in a breeze.

Be forever still as the mindful observer that you truly are.