Quotes About Illusion

I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.

Size and elaboration were often mistaken for importance.

Be aware that the expectation of possible awakening sometimes leads to a false awakening in which you dream of waking.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

T]hose who insist they've got their 'shit together' are usually standing in it at the time. (16)

Think about science fiction movies with lots of special effects: If you notice that special effects are special effects, they will fail.

When a country is in harmony with the Tao, the factories make trucks and tractors. When a country goes counter to the Tao, warheads are stockpiled outside the cities. There is no greater illusion than fear, no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself, no greater misfortune than having an enemy. Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.

I searched until I panted for breath, but could not find it. The solid stone structure was nowhere to be seen. The house was gone - and Merlin with it.

It is but one of the many follies of luxury which lead men to believe that plenty now is abundance always and fortune is everlasting. Pure folly.

Fear can make a moth seem the size of a bull elephant.

Reality is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about. Your entire life and everything in it is a result of your belief system coupled with your thoughts. The feelings and emotions you have cement this in your mind, and the illusion of all of this combined is what you see as your reality on a moment-to-moment and day-to-day basis.

Everyone or almost all eventually evade reality and we invent what we need.

What your mind wants to believe will become the reality, regardless of the truth or falsity in the statement.

At 31 years of age, Fred West was a big man trapped in a little man's body. He thought himself to be a gynecologist and Warren Beatty look-a-like all rolled into one … the surgeon and the stud.

You must be blind if you can't see The gaping hole called reality.

If you have imaginary enemies, it is possible to have imaginary victories.

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.

Convenience is the gateway drug to entitlement. It drains people of their empathy, because it fosters the illusion that they can proceed through life without hardship. This makes it harder for them to imagine others who are facing hardship.

This, it would turn out, is the main thing we had in common: a susceptibility to the brassy escapism of myth.

We live in a society that puts a high premium on success and I learned, mainly through my dad, that salvation would come through success, and I carried that into my adult life and it's a total lie.

God was, to me, a lovely dream, a brave make-believe daddy who provided comforting answers to those who couldn't bear the prevailing evidence.

Used a replica gun to steal a replica sportscar and experienced a replica of remorse

A society will manufacture an image of progress and locate it in the direction it wishes to take us.