Quotes About Illusion

I'd thought he was stars and then I'd thought he was a fox. I had thought I'd been alone, but I hadn't.

Beauty is the worst kind of lie.

(D)reams are like that: they go in and out of memories and scenes, but they're never real. They're never real, and I hate them because they aren't.

Everything was perception; nothing was real.

Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.

By closing one eye, you removed binocular vision, the slight variance in images, called "binocular disparity," that occurs when we view an object with both eyes open. Binocular vision—sometimes called "depth perception"—allows us to see the world as three-dimensional. When you close one eye, the single image is two-dimensional—that is, it is flat, like a photograph, and therefore can be "copied" onto flat paper.

If you're feeling bad for any reason, going to the mall always makes you feel worse. It's so glarey and noisy. The stores are full of things you think you might like until you get close and see how stupid they are.

We have already noticed two of Our Rose's most irritating affectations - her trick of calling inanimate objects 'he' or 'she,' and the way in which she says 'we' when she means 'you.' To these must now be added a third - her habit of looking rapturously into space and saying 'I see' this or that when, in fact, there is nothing there for her to see at all.

All works are being done by the energy and power of nature, but due to delusion of ego people assume themselves to be the doer.

Belief is a deception you play upon yourself....

Mind is a broken mirror.

Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.

The sky is a concave mirror in which Man sees his own distorted image and seeks to propitiate it.

You can put wings on a pig, but that doesn't make it an eagle.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

He hated words. Words glossed every real thing with brittle artifice and deceit. Words were always lies, always intended to deceive even when they held the truth. . . .

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart.

It's just a ride.

Life is only a dream and we are only the imagination of ourselves.

Lift me up out of this illusion, Lord. Heal my perception, so that I may know only reality.

My God, I love EVERYTHING! The heavens parted, God looked down and rained gifts of forgiveness onto my being healing me on every level; psychically, physically, emotionally, and I realized our true nature as spirit, not body, that we are eternal beings and God's love is unconditional and there's nothing we can ever do to change that. It is only an illusion that we are separate from God or that we are alone. In fact, the reality is that we are one with God and he loves us.

So many of us live in a "virtual reality;" it feels real and looks real, but it isn't real.