Quotes About Illusion

Plans give you a list of tasks to keep you from drowning in your own fear. Plans give you a feeling of control, even if it's just an illusion at the time.

It's a popular trick among the streetwise to appear richer than they are.

One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.

What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.

It's not me but the world that's deranged.

What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.

We've been proceeding so long on the plane of consciousness, we don't realize we are spiritual beings. Our minds, our senses, and the society around us all say, "Come on, you're getting into fantasy.

All of society is built to prop up that lie, the whole world a big, noisy puppet show meant to distract us from the fact that at the end, you'll die, and you'll probably be alone.

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony.

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.

As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion

All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.

Everything is just electricity and magnetism; everything is only an illusion. The reality is in the spiritual plane.

Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones we cherish about ourselves.

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.

Most people like to live in illusions.

Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

We can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spirituality when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques.

Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.

People seek for the spiritual champagne, but they mistake what it is.

Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations.