Quotes About Illusion

Demon. Gremlin. Poltergeist. Ghost. Phantom. Spirit. Shadow. Ghoul. Devil. People are afraid of them, so they relegate their existence to stories, volumes of books that can be closed and put on the shelf or left behind at a bed and breakfast; they clench their eyes shut, so they will see no evil. But trust me when I tell you that the zebra is real. Somewhere, the zebra is dancing.

C)hoice without alternative is only a sleight of hand; it is a magician's force-play, during which you believe you have free well, but your fate has already been decided: the magician knows which card you will pick!

But trust me when I tell you that the zebra is real. Somewhere, the zebra is dancing.

Music, Take That and what we do is not real life. It's magical. As soon as you begin to believe it the magic will disappear.

The person who is "in-love" has the ilusion that his beloved is perfect.

Hay un gran peligro substancioso en ir a cazar lo insubstancial

That is the hazard in curiosity, I thought: all the certainties fragment and dissolve. A man curious enough and persistent enough might find even the round and solid ball of earth to be not so. He might be less proud of his faculty of reasoning when it left him with nothing whereon to stand. But then again, was not the truth a more solid foundation than illusion?

I'm not bad, Mr. Valiant. I'm just drawn that way.

I'm constantly amazed how people kid themselves into believing love can conquer all.

A guy like Tracy could probably get elected chief of police on the basis of his dashing reflection in the fun-house mirror. In the comic business they call that the power of make believe. In our nation's capital, they call it politics.

Juggling is an illusion. ... In reality, the balls are being independently caught and thrown in rapid succession. ... It is actually task switching.

But juggling isn't multitasking. Juggling is an illusion. To

The real solutions we seek are almost always hiding in plain sight; unfortunately, they've usually been obscured by an unbelievable amount of bunk, an astounding flood of "common sense" that turns out to be nonsense. Ever

The ballerina is a classic example. When the ballerina poses en pointe, she can appear weightless, floating on air, the very idea of balance and grace. A closer look would reveal her toe shoes vibrating rapidly, making minute adjustments for balance. Counterbalancing done well gives the illusion of balance.

The greatest obstacle to knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.

A mask partially conceals, but it also tells us that something is behind the mask.

Michael Jordan calls fear an illusion. He and many other great athletes learn to turn fear into anger. You can run from fear, or you can get angry and attack it. If you challenged Jordan's pride he wouldn't be afraid. He used that energy to become more aggressive. Good athletes take fear of failure and turn it around.

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

As a Sufi Muslim you cultivated within yourself the thought of oneness, or monism, and made progress in experiencing each seemingly separate thing as an illusory veil over the eternal truth. You recognized the reality of God and the unimportance of matter, and one of the verses of the Koran that was the most dear to you was, "All things in creation suffer extinction and there remaineth the face of thy Lord in its majesty and bounty.

One way the Holy Spirit will awaken you is to teach you that what you think is happening is not happening.

and then the incomprehensible power of your mind to make illusions as a perceiver — rather than make spirit as a creator

Hitler and everyone else in the world, including you, are equally innocent because what you are seeing

knowing the world is an illusion is not enough. The Gnostics and some early Christians called the world a dream; the Hindus call it maya and the Buddhists call it anicca, all meaning pretty much the same thing. But if you don't know the purpose of the dream and how to reinterpret the images you are seeing, which is something we'll get into later, then the general teaching that the world is an illusion is of very limited value.

we're saying he had awakened from the dream. That's not just a minor distinction, Gary. Indeed, being more seemingly awake in the dream is what passes for enlightenment among very many, but that's not what we're teaching.