Quotes About Illusion

People romanticize, I think, this notion of life. But life at all costs is not life, it's ego-extension.

Because celebrities' lives are so visible, I think it makes it look lighter than it is.

I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.

On the pathway of knowledge we view life as in a dream. We feel that all of this world is a dream.

Consciousness is the screen. The images on the screen are your perceptions, the illusion that life is solid, that there is a material universe.

Will something else. Have dreams and believe in them. They don't have to come true. They are just as true as a dream is. Life itself is a dream.

Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood. It's gross ignorance and egotism.

There is no future and there is no past, there never has been, there never will be. You just think there is. It's not life that moves; it's awareness.

The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an illusion.

We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view of life.

You perceive yourself as being solid and physical, limited to a body. You are made up of light, endless mind. The way you see life is a limited state of mind.

Till we attain immortality, all life will remain just an illusion!

The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.

I don't find the life in Hollywood all that meaningful or inspiring.

I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.

I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you're famous... and it's not. You just buy more stuff.

When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

In the early days of films, the movie star in this country replaced royalty. They've been demoted since then but they're still treated as beings larger than life.

Believing that all famous people have tons of money saved up.

As so often in life, things are not always what it seems.

They say life is all about connecting, like that's a good thing. But when brain and eyes are lining up you know different.

I feel that my dreamscapes are part of my everyday life, and sometimes I can't tell the difference.

Any film is at least better than real life.

Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.