A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul BellowTags: intelligence self-deception ignorance illusion avoidance
What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and the pointlessness of life. The same escape, the same short numbing is what the driver of an ox-cart finds in the inn, drinking a few bowls of rice wine or fermented coconut-milk.
Hermann HesseTags: avoidance
Fight for change? Thirst for difference?
Start talking what men avoid talking about.
Tags: difference change fight avoidance thirsty taboo start-talking
Problem is, the bathroom pass can't help you escape life. It's still there when you come out. Problems and crap don't go away hiding in the can.
Simone ElkelesTags: avoidance high-school
All work is the avoidance of harder work.
James RichardsonThere is no avoidance in delay.
AeschylusTags: courage action resolve avoidance delay
I didn't avoid my problems. I just didn't feel as though I had to focus on them every minute of every day. And telling people about certain aspects of my life would only create trouble. If I was guilty of anything, it was of trying not to bring new problems into my life. That wasn't avoidance. That was logical thinking.
Mara PurnhagenTags: avoidance
All that effort,” he mused, “merely to avoid me. How gratifying.
Shana AbeTags: avoidance
My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were going.
Charles DickensTags: humor church excuses avoidance pretext vicarious-doings
Avoidance is a wonderful therapy
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