Quotes About Illusion

When the secret is discovered, when the Truth is seen, all the forces which feverishly produce the continuity of samsara in illusion become calm and incapable of producing any more karma-formations, because there is no more illusion, no more 'thirst' for continuity. It is like mental disease which is cured when he cause or the secret of the malady is discovered and seen by the patients.

Mere suffering exists, but no sufferer is found; The deeds are, but no doer is found.

Mere suffering exists, but no sufferer is found; The deed are, but no doer is found.

Words are symbols representing things and ideas known to us; and these symbols do not and cannot convey the true nature of even ordinary things. Language is considered deceptive and misleading in the matter of understanding of the Truth.

Because Nirvana is thus expressed in negative terms, there are many who have got a wrong notion that it is negative, and expresses self-annihilation. Nirvana is definitely no annihilation of self, because there is no self to annihilate. If at all, it is the annihilation of the illusion, of the false idea of self.

Here the four elements of solidity, fluidity, heat and motion have no place; the notions of length and breadth, the subtle and the gross, good and evil, name and form are altogether destroyed; neither this world nor the other, nor coming, going or standing, neither death nor birth, nor sense-objects are to be found.

It is the vague feeling 'I AM' that creates the idea of self which has no corresponding reality, and to see this truth is to realize Nirvana[.]

[Being a celebrity] doesn't even seem to keep the fleas off our dogs - and if being a celebrity won't give me an advantage over a couple of fleas, then I guess there can't be much in being a celebrity after all.

Steep'd amid honey'd morphine, my windpipe throttled in fakes of death.

We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

We lie to ourselves here. Maybe we are here because we lie to ourselves.

Philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe explained that "no one is as hopelessly enslaved as the person who thinks he's free." That's becoming an apt description for Americans who are oblivious to—or ignorant of—the liberties we've lost.

He is suffering from delusions of adequacy.

It's the little deceptions that no one catches that are going to dissolve it all someday. We'll look at clocks and we won't believe the hands. They'll forecast sun but we'll pack our slickers anyway.

the casual fact, the creative imagination, the will to believe, and out of these three elements, a counterfeit of reality to which there was a violent instinctive response. For it is clear enough that under certain conditions men respond as powerfully to fictions as they do to realities, and that in many cases they help to create the very fictions to which they respond.

Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.

Una buena mentira piadosa es con frecuencia mucho más excitante que una verdad. Es como si se pusiera a la verdad un vestido bonito.

Es un típico autoengaño. En realidad, lo que queremos es prolongar la permanencia del estimulante afectivo.

El maestro llevaba muchos años predicando que la vida no era más que ilusión. Cuando murió su hijo, rompió a llorar. Sus discípulos se le acercaron y le dijeron: –Maestro, ¿cómo puede llorar tanto si nos ha explicado que todas las cosas de esta vida son una ilusión? –Sí —respondió el sabio, enjugándose las lágrimas que resbalaban por sus mejillas—, ¡él era una ilusión tan hermosa!

Maquiavelo dice: "Los fantasmas asustan más de lejos que de cerca".

what if everything that we see, everything that seems real - what if it was not real?...What if the stuff that was real was somehow hidden?... [56]

what if everything that we see, everything that seems real - what if is was not real?...What if the stuff that was real was somehow hidden?...[56]

Vacation syndrome is dangerously seductive. You actually believe that this magical place you have come to allows you to be the contented, stress-free person you really are. There's a lot of vacation syndrome in Paris.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.