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Why Is The Illusion Of Reality

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“Reason is the illusion of reality.” A quote from Hazrat Inayan Khan, the founder of The Sufi Order in the West in 1914 and teacher of Universal Sufism. People do accept reality but when they start to find a reason of their reality, illusion happens. The meaning of reality is the world or the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them. On the other hand, illusion is defined as a thing that is or is likely to be wrongly perceived or interpreted by the senses. There are a lot of reasons why people often go back and forth between the reality and illusion. When a person have an illusion, it does not simply means that he/she cannot accept the reality, however, it may be because the person wants to feel more about the reality. …show more content…

Nevertheless, this reason does not applied to everyone. Some people do have illusion because they are not able to find any happiness in the real world and as a result, they start having an illusion. Simply said, reality sometimes hurt. “Everything that Rises must Converge” by Flannery O’ Connor, “Wash” by William Faulkner, and “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck explore the dual nature of a person’s self-image, and the balance between what one fantasizes and aspires to be versus the reality imposed by one’s personal abilities and/or socio-economic environment. Based on the three literature masterpieces, a person fluctuates between the reality of one’s position in life and one’s notion of what she/he aspires to be like because it is a sort of motivation, to feel good about themselves and illusion elevates one’s

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