Quotes About Illusion

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

The shows of day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, and the like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality. Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.

En ese autoengaño, su genio deserta, su musa lo abandona. Se queda sin creatividad, sin esperanzas. Confía en ti mismo.

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

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

What we're seeing out there is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.

What Einstein demonstrated in physics is equally true of all other aspects of the cosmos: all reality is relative. Each reality is true only within given limits. It is only one possible version of the way things are. There are always multiple versions of reality. To awaken from any single reality is to recognize its relative nature. Meditation is a device to do just that.

Free yourself from the illusion of good and bad days. Labeling time makes us nostalgic of the past and demanding of the future. There is only here and now. Let it be.

Part of the process of awakening is recognizing that the realities we thought were absolute are only relative. All you have to do is shift from one reality to another once, and your attachment to what you thought was real starts to collapse. Once the seed of awakening sprouts in you, there's no choice—there's no turning back.

In the icy peaks of the Himalayas, we see the perfection of it all in the evolutionary journey of beings. And at the same moment, the caring part of us is like the bleeding heart of Jesus, and we look down and see the blood on the snow. We keep both of those in mind at every moment so we can help beings who are suffering in the way they need to be helped. If we are really going to help them get out of the illusion, we ourselves must not get lost in the illusion.

As you awaken, you realize that personal karma is just another illusion. The illusion is that this is the only reality. The witness helps you to see that there are choices, different ways to perceive reality.

The devil specializes in rearranging price tags, making the cheap look valuable and the miserable appear happy. (For example, if, before the purchase, people saw photos of themselves after five years of using methamphetamines, would they still buy them?)

I'd lived my life in a dim labyrinth of drudgery disguised as fun and pleasure.

Never let your prey consider he neither created "his" time nor earned it. He cannot keep it, store it up, or take it with him when he exits earth. So why does he consider it "his" time? Because he's a fool.

La realidad es una ilusión de tu percepción... Cambia la percepción y cambiarás la realidad.

In fact, seeing what is actually there with our conscious mind is really hard to do, and most people never learn how to do it! The brain is actively hiding the real world from us.

Living under the tremendous illusion that personal freedoms and freedom of speech are devoid of moral assumptions and responsibilities, we have bankrupted ourselves, so that honor, truth, and morality have been sacrificed at the altar of autonomy and self-worship.

IS STRANGER THAN FICTION," IT IS SAID. G. K. Chesterton, with his ever-ready wit, told us why that is so: "It is because we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

If, when I am restless, I am wishing there were a God, why not trade that for a belief that tells me that when I am meditating, I am God, and that the momentary excursions into humanity are nothing more than illusion?

Truth is stranger than fiction because we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

The seduction was complete. The lie is what people want, so why get hung up on the truth?

The part of you that thinks of itself as human, is not human - (Maharaj Nisargadatta)

The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.