A Quote by Dennis Merzel
The Mind cannot be confused, but it is confusion.
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Confusion has become a state of mind, more of less; we're trained to be confused. Quite simply, the people in power are keeping us down, keeping us docile and keeping us consuming with this confusion. It's a cultural confusion and it is deliberate.
The mind is intrinsically tranquil. Out of this tranquility, anxiety and confusion are born. If one sees and knows this confusion, then the mind is tranquil once more.
It's okay to be confused. Confusion is the route to all the clarity in the world.
There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.
That's the bulk of my lyrical output - being confused and trying to find answers to my confusion.
Memoirs need confusion. It's the thing every human has in common. We are magnificently confused.
Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.
To set us on a clear path, it is important to communicate well, at least with ourselves. To know what we want, to know what we mean, and to learn to express ourselves clearly, with as little confusion as possible. If you are confused about yourself, you can expect to be misunderstood by those around you. You have to set your mind straight, and that is a task that no one else can undertake for you.
An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault.
I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. A confused people can make no clear demands.
Masochists are people that have pleasure confused with pain. In a world that has television confused with entertainment, doritoes confused with food, and Dan Quayle confused with a national political leader, masochists are clearly less mixed-up than the rest of us.
We have misunderstood our confusion when we think there is an answer to it. The confusion is not a result of questions that are too hard, but rather a questioner who is disintegrating. Confusion is the introduction to true intelligence.
What is a decision? It's a tool to remove confusion! Are you confused? If so, then make the decision and let's move on!
We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.
Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devote it in meditation to the task of freeing itself from illusion, and we will find that, with time, patience, discipline, and the right training, our mind will begin to unknot itself and know its essential bliss and clarity.
I also talk a lot in Deeper Reading about the importance that confusion plays. When my students come to me, they think confusion is bad. They are wrong. Confusion is the place where learning occurs.
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