Quotes About Illusion

He fell in love with her for what she wasn't, while she hated him for what he was!

You are fascinated by what you're Not!

You are like an autumn cloud, Bhoorisravas, full of thunder but never bringing rain.

The ego is the maya. Now, what is maya? It's the sense of personal doership.

nothing can happen to any him or her because there is no him or her.

Reality is only one and that is the SELF; all the rest are mere phenomena in It, of It and by It.

Everything was real except her.

Face your fears and allow yourself to unmask their illusion.

It's like one of those scenes from a feel-good Hollywood movie. Where everybody is happy and nobody's hair fizzes in the wind. Where it doesn't rain, your shoes stay comfortable all day, and everybody's jokes are funny.

For a long time, whenever the hunter took off his clothes, she would laugh as if he were playing a trick on her, something magical but ridiculous. He would explain to her how useful and beautiful clothes are; she listened, always, with the same willing doubtful smile. She would have liked to be fooled, but it was more than she could manage; the hunter was the one clothed thing in a naked world.

We are all made up," he answered aloud. "We are only real at night.

Often, the most dangerous deception was the one that looked the most like the truth.

Emotion, any emotion, was a symptom of perceived reality, not reality itself.

Cel mai r?u demon la lumina zilei poate ar?ta ridicol,dar în umbr? creÈ™te în în?lÈ›ime È™i cap?t? proporÈ›ii incredibile.

Identification with an ethnic or national community, with a religion, ideology, or any abstraction is nothing but a blood-soaked delusion.

Privative appropriation and domination are thus originally imposed and felt as a positive right, but in the form of a negative universality. Valid for everyone, justified in everyone's eyes by divine or natural law, the right of privative appropriation is objectified in a general illusion, in a universal transcendence, in an essential law under which everyone individually manages to tolerate the more or less narrow limits assigned to his right to live and to the conditions of life in general.

the economy cannot stop making us consume more and more, and to consume without respite is to change illusions at an accelerating pace which gradually dissolves the illusion of change. We find ourselves alone, unchanged, frozen in the empty space behind the waterfall of gadgets, family cars and paperbacks.

Common sense is the lie codified and vulgarized.

The illusion of reality lies not in the machinery itself, but in in the users' willingness to treat the manifestations of their imaginings as if they were real.

Our perception of reality is basically abstraction

with. In a very real sense, we do not see the world — we see what our brain tells us we see.

People tend to conceive things as true when they wish them to be true.

**(C)(P)- IN JAMAICA AND OTHER PLACES LIKE IT, THE POOR, UNDERCLASS, THE UNWARY ARE DECEIVED INTO THINKING THAT THE RICH -MUST BE GOOD PEOPLE TO BE RICH-WHILE THOSE WHO ARE POOR MUST BE THE EVIL ONES. THIS IS JUST HOW MUCH THEY HAVE BEEN DECEIVED. THEY END UP HATING THEMSELVES IN THE PROCESS.

there often comes a moment, in the heat of your desperation, when you call a "time-out." And you withdraw from the cyclone of illusion that swirls around you. And you find, after all that drama, that the stillness within is still there waiting. It never left. You did. And you scattered a mind-boggling trail of chaos behind you. So that, when all else fails—as it inevitably does—you would find your way home.