Quotes About Illusion

The only best way to prove that a statue can't provide for you is to ask it for food.

The programmer lives in an imaginary world or virtual reality, chained away from the realities of the outside world.

The secondary purpose of sport is to distract people from reality, it is the new drug of our generation.

The truth lose its beauty once it's visible before your eyes.

The veil of illusion cannot be overcome by mortals.

There is always a touch of magic in every miracle and a touch of miracle in every magical trick.

Time is still too complicated for us to comprehend and we cannot define it using our wristwatches, nor by using the big clocks on the wall.

Time, life and death are mysterious, and they will remain to be so until the day we will come to possess the key of all illusions.

We are becoming more spiritual, in our minds, but in reality, it is the opposite of spiritually that is practised by the mystics.

Such vastness makes for illusion, a kind of illusion that comprehends reality, and where it exists there is always wonder and exhilaration.

Things aren't always what they seem, are they?

La verdad es como una manta que nos deja los pies fríos. Ya puede uno tirar de ella hacia sí en todos los sentidos, que nunca nos cubrirá del todo. Sacudidla, tirad de ella, mas nunca será suficiente. Desde el día en que se viene al mundo, llorando, a aquel a quien se le entrega, agonizante, no puede hacer más que cubrirse con ella la cabeza y gemir, llorar o aullar.

When the women went to the tomb they met someone else and in the half light they thought it was Jesus himself. Answer: they would have noticed soon enough.

We mustn't imagine that our feeling of being close to God is a true index of the reality.

I am not, I will not be. I have not, I will not have. This frightens all children, And kills fear in the wise.

The victorious ones have said That emptiness is the relinquishing of all views. For whomever emptiness is a view, That one has achieved nothing.

Without recourse to the conventional The ultimate cannot be shown

Entities do not exist In their causes, in their conditions In aggregations of many things, or in individual things Therefore, all entities are empty.

Porque todo es vacuidad, todo puede ser.

El ser humano se encuentra cegado por la ignorancia y encadenado por la sed

Just as it is known That an image of one's face is seen Depending on a mirror But does not really exist as a face, So the conception of "I" exists Dependent on mind and body, But like the image of a face The "I" does not at all exist as its own reality.

All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.

All philosophies are mental fabrications.

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.