Quotes About Illusion

INFINITY is an illusion, we are just too lazy to count...

What people say realistic, may not necessarily the same as what we think. At the end we will know which one Is ourselves, which one is not.

Most people who think they're happy are really just stupid.

Meditation is about mindfulness and learning to strip away the illusion, revealing your authentic self and connectedness to everything and everyone.

Not everything that is seen is visible.

As I see, 90%+ (and not less than that) of people go about their lives living 90%+ (and not less) of a lie. choose a different way and live the least truth you might be.

Fear, in its many guises, is here to test you. Surrendering to fear only limits you and makes your path more difficult. Know that fear is an illusion and a trickster and that there are tools to help you resist it.

fiction is both artifice and verisimilitude, and that there is nothing difficult in holding together these two possibilities.

This is merely another definition of dramatic irony: to see through a character's eyes while being encouraged to see more than the character can see (an unreliability identical to the unreliable first-person narrator's). 11

Once you get to the other side of the fence you realize that grass is just ichie.

People tend to think, speak and act as though their thoughts have the same qualities as the material world…

Come on; wake up to the fact that constructing your own reality is another way of defining insanity!

Live is a Dream If we want to see iT.

Not everything is a Dream something's are Reality.

I have never seen so many ugly dresses. I cannot find this dress, which was woven out of daydreams and naiveté.

Av alle blendverk livet truer på oss, er dette det farligste; å tro at det bare er én virkelighet og at den er forståelig.

I've been doing the hotel accounting long enough to know that two and two equals whatever you want it to be. It's simply a matter of perception and misdirection.

Life is an absolute Dream... then I wake up.

It's about thinking that being blond & slim & perfect will automatically bring you happiness, & then discovering that life is as full of as many disappointments as there were before.

it was part of being very young that you overestimated the lightweights with charisma.

In meditation practice, we learn to let go of the thoughts and fantasies that block the direct intuitive experience of who and what we really are. Our constant mental activity is what maintains the illusion of a separate self, and this effort makes us weary.

The Sanskrit word for this circular chain is samsara. Samsaric existence is endless, so long as we live in ignorance.

Embroidery is an improbable hobby for someone as disordered as me, but it's the very precision of it that attracts me, the illusion of control it offers. When engaged in stitching a new pattern, I can't think about anything else. Guilt, misery, longing all flee away, leaving just the beautiful little microcosm of the world in my hands, the flash of the needle, the rainbow colors of the thread, the calming exactitude of the discipline.

I have learnt to spin words like dervishes, to bewitch and blur reality.