Quotes About Illusion

But where did I come into the dream?" I asked. "You-- you were in the coffin; but you were not dead." "In the coffin?" "Yes." "How did you know ? Could you see me?" "No; I only knew you were there." "Had you been eating Welsh rarebits, or lobster salad?" I began laughing, but the girl interrupted me with a frightened cry.

There was no real hearse. That was a soft-shell crab dream." She smiled faintly.

Regression is defined here as a psychological retreat to a prior stage of development in order to reduce fear and foster an illusion of security.

Since every member of the family has to conform to the illusions of parental or family love, this process also demands that the child distort his or her sense of reality and of the self.

A person who comes to depend on self-mothering through fantasy, together with self-nourishing habits and routines, develops an illusion of self-sufficiency, of needing nothing from the outside world in terms of love and care. Paradoxically, the more a person relies on this process, the less able one is to function in society and actually satisfy basic requirements for living.

Because of the anxiety inherent in being vulnerable and undefended in a new love relationship, an individual unconsciously attempts to merge and form a unit with the loved one. In forming a bond, the lover is able to alleviate anxiety and attain a false sense of security and safety by sustaining the illusion of being fused. The fantasy of being connected functions as a defense, for whenever this bond is broken, the underlying pain and fear of separation invariably surface.

We have regarded as real what is unreal. We have to give up this attitude.

Find the Source of this false I: then it will disappear.

So, there is really no entity by the name of [my] "mind";

The one who has known for certain that all this world is the product of illusion, and that nothing exists, naturally enjoys peace.

One suffers because of the idea that the body is "I". Misery

If you accept the idea that many of our most troublesome feelings are in one sense or another illusions, then meditation can be seen as, among other things, a process of dispelling illusions.

People may chuckle appreciatively at a male turkey that tries to mate with a poor rendition of a female's [suspended] head, but if you then point out that many a human male regularly gets aroused after looking at two-dimensional representations of a nude woman, they don't see the connection.

We are designed to feel that the next great goal will bring bliss, and the bliss is designed to evaporate shortly after we get there. Natural selection has a malicious sense of humor; it leads us along with a series of promises and then keeps saying "Just kidding.

We think we're better than average at not being biased in thinking that we're better than average.

If you put these two fundamental Buddhist ideas together—the idea of not-self and the idea of emptiness—you have a radical proposition: neither the world inside you nor the world outside you is anything like it seems.

It is the study of how the human brain was designed—by natural selection—to mislead us, even enslave us.

free will is an illusion, brought to us by evolution. All the things we are commonly blamed or praised for—ranging from murder to theft to Darwin's eminently Victorian politeness—are the result not of choices made by some immaterial "I" but of physical necessity. "This view should teach one profound humility, one deserves no credit for anything," Darwin wrote in his notes. "[N]or ought one to blame others.

According to the teaching of the Buddha, the idea of self is an imaginary, false belief which has no corresponding reality, and it produces harmful thoughts of 'me' and 'mine,' selfish desire, craving, attachment, hatred, ill-will, conceit, pride, egoism, and other defilements, impurities, and problems.

Bloom relates the story of Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering learning that a painting he owned, which he'd thought was a genuine Vermeer, was in fact a forgery. At that moment, according to one observer, Goering looked "as if for the first time he [had] discovered there was evil in the world.

Still, at a minimum it seems fair to say that the role of our conscious selves in guiding behavior is not nearly as big as was long thought. And the reason this role was exaggerated is that the conscious mind feels so powerful; in other words, the conscious mind is naturally deluded about its own nature.

Capgras delusion

Caer… caer siempre más bajo. Y sin embargo, otros hombres son felices, encuentran el amor, pero todos sufren. Lo que ocurre es que unos se dan cuenta y otros no. Algunos lo atribuyen a lo que no tienen. Pero qué sueño estúpido ése.

No podré tener más ilusiones. A los otros hombres los mueve alguna ilusión. Unos creen que tener dinero los hará felices, y trabajan como bestias para acumular oro. Y así los sorprende la muerte. Otros creen que con el poder serán dichosos. Y cuando les llega al poder, la sensibilidad para gustarlo se les hizo pedazos entre todas las bellaqueríasque ejecutaron para conseguir el poder