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"Confusion conditions activity, which conditions consciousness, which conditions embodied personality, which conditions sensory experiences, which conditions impact, which conditions mood, which conditions craving, which conditions clinging, which conditions becoming, which conditions birth, which conditions aging and death."
"She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short."
"The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion."
"It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it."
"In the absence of truth there is confusion, the essence of truth."
"Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds."
"Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value with which it alone is concerned, sniffs round the mass as instinctively and unerringly as a dog suspicious of some buried bone."
"'I beg your pardon?' Alice said with a puzzled air. 'I'm not offended,' said Humpty Dumpty."
"You live out the confusions until they become clear."
"Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion."
"If anyone wishes to see how the soul dwells in its body, let him observe how this body uses its daily habitation; that is to say, if this is devoid of order and confused, the body will be kept in disorder and confusion by its soul."
"Something is aware of even the energy of confusion inside of you. There is no need to get unconfused. Leave it - it will pass."
"Confusion is the main cause of worry"
"When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion? Suddenly it is gone. When you fully accept that you don't know, you actually enter a state of peace and clarity that is closer to who you truly are than thought could ever be. Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself."
"Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding."
"God has revealed to me that only the Paramatman, whom the Vedas describe as the Pure Soul, is as immutable as Mount Sumeru, unattached, and beyond pain and pleasure. There is much confusion in this world of His maya. One can by no means say that 'this' will come after 'that' or 'this' will produce 'that'."
"It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own."
"Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!"
"Love is more afraid of change than destruction."
"Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition."
