Quotes About Illusion

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

Yo, sedienta de mí, me detenía en estatuas duplicando el instante fugitivo en cristales y luego reiniciaba mi marcha de Narciso ya entonces como alada liberación de imagen entre imágenes.

Blind folk see the fairies. Oh, better far than we, Who miss the shining of their wings Because our eyes are filled with things We do not wish to see.

They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder but you have question the beholder when he or she is delusional.

How did the human eye so arrange for itself the lines and colors of the human creature (surely a comparatively ugly animal?) that they wavered and re-formed into this shape we have conceived to be beauty? Strange illusion!

The superior thing, in this as in other departments of life, was to be late. Lateness showed that serene contempt for the illusion we call time which is so necessary to ensure the respect of others and oneself. Only the servile are punctual...

Which matters more to you, God or pretty illusions that you've been taught in God's name? (Or have you been clinging to the austere illusion of emptiness?) Consequences will flow from your choice.

What some folks might call, "Feeling relaxed and mellow" is NOT Spiritual Enlightenment.

Amazing Earth School can be a world of illusions or a world of reality. Which will it be for you? The answer depends on your discernment, and then how you use your freedom of choice. Definitely you can give yourself a chance to pursue — and attain — Spiritual Enlightenment.

My belief, through my experiences, is that the world in which we live is but an illusionary world, a world that one day we will leave behind as we travel on toward our destiny and toward reality.

I believe from my many experiences that the spirit world is more real, more solid, than this earth in which we live. In truth, ours is a world of illusion. All that seems so solid is yet just a mass: molecules locked together, forming an impression of solid matter that in fact is not solid at all.

Long-haired Chihuahuas have no notion they are bite-sized.

I wasn't worried about myself. I didn't consider the possibility that either of the men could catch me. I was all-star varsity soccer. I was Braveheart in Urban Outfitters. I was Supergirl. I was seriously delusional.

Being in on the secret might be a lot of fun when you're a kid, but not so much once you realize how often life hinges on everyone agreeing--at least outwardly--on the same reality.

If you're such a genius, you wouldn't believe in magic." "If you weren't such an old coot, you wouldn't need it.

That was the thing about the Goodnight world. No matter what the label said, you could never assume anything only worked like magic.

The fantastic cannot exist independently of that 'real' world which it seems to find frustratingly finite.

Her laconic humor helped. She could say, "I don't any longer have the pleasant illusion that I can be free of the label 'Stalin's daughter.' . . . You can't regret your fate, though I do regret my mother didn't marry a carpenter."2

extraordinarily beautiful, and slightly out of focus.

The natural world we perceive through our senses is, for Plato, a defective and incomplete version of this more perfect and timeless realm in the same way that (in the famous metaphor from Book 7 of The Republic) the images seen by the prisoners shackled in their cave are the shadows of the real objects for which the prisoners, in their ignorance, mistake them.

I found when I followed the driveway around to the back that behind its imposing front it was just another tract house, as if the architect had tried to combine a southern plantation mansion with the slave quarters.

On the other side of the tracks - the tracks were there - the business section wore its old Spanish facades like icing on a stale cake.

Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.

HE WORLD LOOKS AT YOU and sees one person; you look in the mirror and see another.