Quotes About Illusion

En el samsara hay innumerables trampas que nos conducen al sufrimiento. En lugar de encontrar el camino de la vacuidad, que nos conduce a la libertad, seguimos atrapados por su opuesto, el aferramiento a la existencia verdadera. Si mientras permanecemos en el samsara no encontramos el camino de la vacuidad

All that I possess and use Is like the fleeting vision of a dream. It fades into the realms of memory, And fading, will be seen no more.

What we see and what we touch Is stuff of dreams and mirages.

Speaking truth in a away that it seems a lie benefits you more than telling a lie which seems true.

I will always love the false image I had of you.

Adornment, exoticism, affectation are all willed decadent strategies meant to pervert the texts they made. Decadent texts often live in their descriptive excursions, in their evocation of dreams, mysterious places and states of mind, in their excess of words, not events. The surface of the texts, the sound of the words, point to themselves as manufactured, as illusion. The decadents attempted to create texts that announced themselves as artifice.

Yes! That's what all our talk about a decent world has been... just so much bullshit." "We did say it was still only a dream." "And a bloody useless one at that. Life's a fuck-up and it's never going to change.

There were vast spaces in which his spirit could reach out, touching this, possessing that, of a million crowding sensations, but gradually at first, then rapidly, he had found himself reaching out to ever-receding mirages, alone in a void. He

In show business, more showgirls are kept than promises.

Alekk looked over at my parents and smiled, and if I didn't know my dad was blind I could swear

There is no illusion but consciousness! This consciousness is ever the smiling monument commemorating "Whether you ever really enjoyed Life"!

The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.

fame gives you everything you never wanted.

What I'd really like to say about stardom is it gave me everything i never wanted.

keep telling her how beautiful she looks. Keep on saying that. How beautiful she looks. Lay it on thick. She won't believe you, she's too smart to fall for blarney, but it's what she wants to hear. It's the tribute you must always pay to great beauties when they grow old. Remember it's always the cameraman who grows old, never the star.

Reality is not easy, but all this make-believe doesn't make it easier.

There is no future, there is no past. Everything is now, and we are completely transparent; we have no solidity. We only look as if we had.

It is not that we kill or annihilate something that actually exists; rather, we get rid of a deluded mind-state.

In Buddhism, consciousness is central because all phenomena are realized to be mere appearances to consciousness that have no independent existence.

Samsara is not out there, but rather in the way that we experience our environment. To target it precisely, samsara is in the quality of our minds. Our minds are not functioning in accord with reality, and therein lies the problem.

Normally, the mind involuntarily superimposes a sense of solidity on our perceptions of visual objects, even though the eyes are not designed to detect this tactile characteristic.

Freedom is an illusion, but a valuable one.

If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that's necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

If this was a dream, he didn't want to wake up.