Quotes About Illusion

Some people get angry when they hear me say that problems are illusions.

The other more serious reason for the illusion of separateness is compulsive thinking. It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.

If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he is dreaming.

When I obtain this or am free of that — then I will be okay." This is the unconscious mind-set that creates the illusion of salvation in the future.

Even when the ego seems to be concerned with the present, it is not the present that it sees: It misperceives it completely because it looks at it through the eyes of the past.

on your personal and cultural conditioning. We may call this phantom self the ego. It consists of mind activity and can only be kept going through constant thinking. The term ego means different things to different people

you are. Even if people agree with it, it is ultimately a fiction. Many people don't realize until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had anything to do with who they

Ego is the complete identification with form. Physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms.

You are only allowed to see a sanitized version of death.

You are that awareness, disguised as a person.

Ono što je stvarno nikada ne može umrijeti; umiru samo imena, oblici i prividi.

It is not so much that you use your mind wrongly — you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over.

More consciousness means a lessening of the illusion of materiality.

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honour and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfilment in whatever form. Both are illusions

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form

This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over.

The compulsion to do, and the tendency to derive your sense of self-worth and identity from external factors such as achievement, is an inevitable illusion as long as you are identified with the mind. This makes it hard or impossible for you to accept the low cycles and allow them to be.

expectativas ilusorias de que algo o alguien en el futuro lo salvará o lo hará feliz.

Ese mal uso da lugar a creencias y afirmaciones absurdas y a engaños del ego, tales como "Mi o nuestro Dios es el único Dios verdadero y tu Dios es falso" o la famosa afirmación de Nietzsche "Dios ha muerto". La palabra Dios se ha convertido en un concepto cerrado.

Even when the ego seems to be concerned with the present, it is not the present that it sees: It misperceives it completely because it looks at it through the eyes of the past. Or it reduces the present to a means to an end, an end that always lies in the mind-projected future.

Thought can at best point to the truth, but it never is the truth. That's why Buddhists say "The finger pointing to the moon is not the moon.

Every portal is a portal of death, the death of the false self. When you go through it, you cease to derive your identity from your psychological, mind-made form. You then realize that death is an illusion, just as your identification with form was an illusion. The end of illusion — that's all that death is. It is painful only as long as you cling to illusion.

Vielleicht kommt es der Wahrheit näher zu sagen, dass sie Zugang zu dir gewinnt und durch dich zur Welt. Diese Kraft meinte Jesus, als er sagte: »Der Vater, der in mir wohnt, der tut seine Werke.«24 Angst, Stress und Negativität schneiden dich von dieser Kraft ab. Dann kehrt die Illusion zurück, dass du von der Kraft getrennt bist, die dieses Universum bewegt.

It always looks as if people had a choice, but that is an illusion. As long as your mind with its conditioned patterns runs your life, as long as you are your mind, what choice do you have? None.