#confusion

I’m staring into chocolate eyes. although my brain is clouded and I’m dizzy, I know enough to register that chocolate is the opposite of blue. I don’t want blue. Blue confuses me too much. Chocolate is straight-forward, easier to deal with. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#confusion

In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution. Anything which is created must, sooner or later, die. If enlightenment were created in such a way, there would always be a possibility of ego reasserting itself, causing a return to the confused state. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it. ↗

— Chögyam Trungpa

#confusion #discovery #enlightenment #philosophy #self-discovery

We should set our goals; then learn to control our appetites. Otherwise, we will lose ourselves in the confusion of the world. ↗

— Hark Herald Sarmiento

#confusion #goals #self-control #world #goal-setting

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#characterize #confusion #ends #means #our

Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity. ↗

— Jennifer Capriati

#brief period #confusing #confusion #darker #did

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives. ↗

— Sarah Fielding

#bending #chief #confusion #desire #error

After Bush was elected in 2004 - please note that I didn't say 're-elected' - and I was walking around in my befuzzed state of confusion and low-grade depression, I set out more or systematically to read writers who'd grappled with that fundamental question of what America is, why it is the way it is. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#america #around #bush #confusion #depression

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness. ↗

— James Thurber

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Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn. ↗

— Paul Klee

#confusion #nature #point #taciturn #truly

Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#finger #makes #me #people #put