Quotes About Illusion

And I realized again that real life is different from reel life.

. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . .

Sometimes, as we practice jnana yoga, we feel that life has no meaning, no purpose. We feel that there is no reason to try, that life is empty. This is another illusion.

The idea is easy to understand. All of life is a dream. You have dreamed everything that you are and everything you are aware of.

You have dreamed me into your dream to awaken you from the dreams of life, death and separativity.

Life is invisible. The illusion is that what we perceive is in some way not a reflection of self. Life reflects the field of attention that we're in.

There is no life and there is no death. Life and death are moving shadows cast upon the ground by clouds that sweep across the sky.

I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

We do. Or re-create the ones we have, and project. My whole life is projection.

Just take it easy and celebrate the malleable reality. You see, nothing is ever at is seems, yeah this life is but a dream.

If you want to be true to life, start lying about it

Hollywood large is so different than real-life large.

The sages say that life is illusion, but does that change its poignancy?

The world and life's too big to pass for a dream

Life is an empty dream.

Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.

Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That's not what real life is about.

But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool.

Let the new faces play what tricks they will In the old rooms; night can outbalance day, Our shadows rove the garden gravel still, The living seem more shadowy than they.

Life is deceitful because all warfare is based on deception.

...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

But I've always felt a need to have a life which is completely separate - at least as far as possible - from the kind of illusory lifestyle that comes with being a celebrity.

I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.

The Darkest Minds tend to hide behind the most unlikely faces.