“Sometimes I can’t help the feeling that I’m
Living a life of illusion
And oh, why can’t we let it be
And see thru the hole in this wall of confusion
I just can’t help the feeling I’m
Living a life of illusion

Hey, don’t you know it’s a waste of your day
Caught up in endless solutions
That have no meaning, just another hunch
Based upon jumping conclusions
Caught up in endless solutions
Backed up against a wall of confusion
Living a life of illusion” Joe Walsh, 1980

Illusion: something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.

Have you ever binged on excitement only to come off the high four days later?


As I Read Jesus, I think a huge part of his mission on this planet was to lead us to a place where we can stop living a life of illusion; to break our addiction to fantasy of self and those illusions that lead us into our addictions: the false realities that attempt to remove our pain, such as “success“, relationships, or even heroin, and even some of the mystification that occurs in our religion.

Jesus lived from the internal state of his authentic self; his relationship to God– the Kingdom within.
He was not deluded by illusions, and when he began to confront illusions: beliefs, faulty ideas, and unhealthy attitudes he pulled the veil and identified the illusions for what they were– the very things that lead us away from God, oursleves, and others.

Illusions have consequences.
We pretend that what God can’t see won’t hurt him and build a case of rationalization and justification for our addicted states or illusions.

I can fall into the illusion of living a role instead of a life. I cannot move away from God and find my true self, yet sometimes I’d live as though I am in a ongoing David Copperfiled show. I can be deluded by my illusions– my false self. It is easy to play Houdini with our lives as if we can escape reality through fantasy. It seems folks are often in the conquest of the next great high under the illusion of excitement, achievement, and “conquests”, when in reality we seem to only be attempting to escape the deeper underlying feelings in our soul.

Illusions seem real,
but are only an escape
that back us into a wall of confusion.

Jesus named realities.

Date posted : July 22nd, 2007 by Rick Last Modified : July 22nd, 2007 / Filed under : Feeds / Report a Concern Navigate : Previous post / Next post / Top of Page
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