Quotes About Illusion

God, what is our life! An eternal discord between dream and reality!

Everything is deception, everything is a dream, everything is not what it seems to be!

Com'è ripugnante la realtà! Che cosa è in confronto al sogno?

Sanki cinler periler dünyay? binlerce parçaya ay?rm??lar, sonra da bu parçalar? anlams?zca, geli?igüzel bir araya getirmi?ler.

Venise à la qualité de disparaître en un instant,de ne pas courir derrière le train avec des clins d'œil à gauche et à droite comme le font d'autres villes, mais de sombrer aussitôt, comme si elle n'existait pas, comme si elle n'avait jamais existé.

You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it. In fact, demolition is easy, for the false dissolves when it is discovered.

Have your being outside this body of birth and death and all your problems will be solved. They exist because you believe yourself born to die. Undeceive yourself and be free. You are not a person.

In the great mirror of consciousness, images arise and disappear and only memory gives them continuity. And memory is material - destructible, perishable, transient. On such flimsy foundations we build a sense of personal existence - vague, intermittent, dreamlike. This vague persuasion, "I am so-and-so," obscures the changeless state of pure awareness and makes us believe that we are born to suffer and to die.

To be a living being is not the ultimate state; there is something beyond, much more wonderful, which is neither being nor non-being, neither living nor non-living. It is a state of pure awareness, beyond the limitations of space and time. Once the illusion that the body-mind is oneself is abandoned, death loses its terror; it becomes a part of living.

Things are as they are and nobody in particular is responsible. The idea of personal responsibility comes from the illusion of agency.

In reality, nothing happens. Onto the screen of the mind, destiny forever projects its pictures, memories of former projections, and thus illusion constantly renews itself. The pictures come and go - light intercepted by ignorance. See the light and disregard the picture.

In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realization, the person ceases.

You are concerned with your own happiness and I am telling you that there is no such thing. Happiness is never your own, it is where the 'I' is not.

When the shadow is seen to be only a shadow, you stop following it. You turn around and discover the sun which was there all the time - behind your back!

Time has convinced me of one thing. Television is for appearing on, not looking at.

Perhaps the Enlightenment itself was a psychotic break. The belief that all things could be measured

It occurred to me that a lot of beauty has to do with believing it yourself. That half of what we see is just the way it is presented.

She had believed that she alone could touch his heart, and that likewise his was the only gaze that would ever reach hers. She had left her home in response to his kind words, only to find that this belief had been nothing but the conceit of an ignorant girl.

The Great Illusion.

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

The basic beer ad: big-breasted babes in bikinis. Beer won't get you babes. But if you drink enough, you think they're babes, and if you drink more, you can grow your own breasts.

The best love affairs are those we never had

The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.

Stay a dreamer, and you'll never have your dream; get down in the nitty-gritty, and when you get your dream you see what horseshit it was in the first place.