Two people who are a little bit deluded in each other's favour. That's what love is, isn't it?
. . . to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
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.
I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought to be deluded.
The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people.
If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.
The worst deluded are the self-deluded.
Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.
If someone as deluded as I was can be brought out of homosexuality then surely anyone can.
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.
Taste of metal on my tongue. Poison the color of envy- I'm delirious, you're delicious, I'm deluded and delusional. I'm lost without you. I need you.
No matter how confused or deluded we may be at the moment, the underlying and essential nature of our being is clear and pure
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 ignorant and the deluded are, I think, in a strange way to be envied. That which is not known of does not trouble us, while an imagined but insubstantial peril does not harm us. To know the truths behind reality is a far greater burden.
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.
To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.
Don't be deluded into believing that the titular heads of the networks control what appears on their networks. They all have better taste.
When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.
I had prepared myself for prison and torture as a soldier in peacetime prepares for the hardships of war. I had studied the lives of Christians who had faced similar pains and temptations to surrender and thought how I might adapt their experiences. Many who had not so prepared themselves were crushed by suffering, or deluded into saying what they should not.