Quotes About Illusion

And then I saw him waving to us from behind the sky's reflection.

In order to become whole we must try, in a long process, to discover our own personal truth, a truth that may cause pain before giving us a new sphere of freedom. If we choose instead to content ourselves with intellectual "wisdom," we will remain in the sphere of illusion and self-deception.

If you remember better times you know they were lies, because they led to this

Distortion's all that I know.

This clearing is full of false lights, flickers that stop when you look.

I am a skeleton. I have a skull with an artifice of fire in its eyes.

Evaporated I've never been there.

Magic isn't easily identified

being nothing, being unimagined, being unreal.

I don't feel like I am where you are; I'm not in the world except by appearance.

I'm so crazy I can't know anyone anymore. I listen to voices, see people who aren't tangible to others; they sustain me, and I need them. Who's to say who's really here?

O mapa astral não é o território, e você não pode comer um menu.

Os nossos órgãos de percepção - os olhos, os ouvidos, o sistema nervoso e o cérebro em si - funcionam em stereo, mas produzem uma visão holográfica do noaso ambiente.

A astrologia é antropocêntrica. Vivemos na Terra, não no Sol. E, se considerarmos o sistema solar como um paradigma para a psique, esse Zodíaco Tropical reflete uma verdade psíquica. A vida que vivemos entre o nosso nascimento e a nossa morte é um tipo de ilusão, ou aquilo que os hindus chamam de maya, ou que Shakespeare chamou 'a matéria de que são feitos os sonhos'. Porém, enquanto estamos aqui, eles parecem muito reais.

and half-formed faces float out and vanish too undulating to be actual

Love is...' he paused and then laughed. 'Love is like an armchair cover. It hides a multitude of sins. It's washable and may well have a riot of roses and auriculas splashed over it, but underneath everything is all ripped up.

Nobody's as powerful as we make them out to be.

the disciples' illusions of what Jesus could and should do with His power were shattered by the reality of what Jesus actually did with His power, and their personal illusions of commitment-unto-death were shattered by the reality of fear-inspired self-protection.

Ja, ze lijkt ouder dan ze is.' Je moest eens weten, dacht Claire met een grimmig glimlachje.

When people are afraid, they will give up almost anything for an illusion of safety.

For life is what animals can teach us: how the present moment is all, and past and future are illusion.

Freedom was a fantasy she gnawed obsessively in her few moments of leisure, like an old bone with just a trace of meat, and like all illusions, it left her hungrier than before, only more keenly aware of how her soul starved within her, its wings wasting with the despair of disuse.

When people are afraid they will give up almost anything for the illusion of safety.

That's what you think, my dear. You think a lot of men want to sleep with me. I used to think that myself." Her voice alters. "Bloody little fool that I was. Men don't want to sleep with me, they want to have slept with me.