Quotes About Illusion

There is often a big disparity between the way in which we perceive things and the way things really are.

All beliefs will crash somewhere. Only reality will sustain itself.

If you see there is no meaning to anything that you are doing, your ego collapses; so you are trying to find all kinds of fake meanings.

All that happens is the cause of all that happens. Causes are numberless; the idea of a sole cause is an illusion.

If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is only an apparency.

Enlightenment has nothing to do with being spiritual. Being spiritual is just an idea - it's another ring of perception.

As you sift through this very solid-looking body, you have to go only so far before you end up with a handful of nothing.

The awakening process is not about 'finding who you are' but more about finding out about the ego, about who you are not.

Imaginary happiness has an "end" and real happiness is "permanent".

The ego is the seeker but does not want the Truth.

A thing or one's eyes are not maya (deceit), but the attraction that occurs due to the sense is maya!

Illusion (moha) is to take a beating and then forget, to take another beating and then forget again.

Illusion means to weigh right and wrong with the same scale.

Holiness on earth is a spiritual fantasy.

Ego got you thinkin' you're workin' somebody to your advantage

We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass.

More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.

Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.

Statistics are like bikinis-they show a lot but not everything.

I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it... I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me.

Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty

Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.

It's not too far; it just seems like it is.

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.