For example, Maya, the goddess of illusion wants us to believe that there is only a material world, therefore money and material goods are all that matter. She tries to fool us into believing that we are separate, but in reality we are all connected in one way or another. Maya fills our head with thoughts that are meant to deceive us into thinking that only the things we can sense are real. In “Desiderata” we see that this is not the case because Erhmann discusses trickery as being fooled by those who try to defraud us in business transactions, we must not be naïve, but we also must realize that there is still good within the world as well. In the following stanza this concept is illustrated for
For example, Maya, the goddess of illusion wants us to believe that there is only a material world, therefore money and material goods are all that matter. She tries to fool us into believing that we are separate, but in reality we are all connected in one way or another. Maya fills our head with thoughts that are meant to deceive us into thinking that only the things we can sense are real. In “Desiderata” we see that this is not the case because Erhmann discusses trickery as being fooled by those who try to defraud us in business transactions, we must not be naïve, but we also must realize that there is still good within the world as well. In the following stanza this concept is illustrated for