Quotes About Illusion

Your avatar can look any way you want it to, up to the limitations of your equipment. If you're ugly, you can make your avatar beautiful. If you've just gotten out of bed, your avatar can still be wearing beautiful clothes and professionally applied makeup. You can look like a gorilla or a dragon or a giant talking penis in the Metaverse. Spend five minutes walking down the Street and you will see all of these.

The old stars-and-moons act was a good way to farm the unduly trusting. But the need to raise money in the first place seemed to call into question one's own ability to turn lead into gold. (Enoch in Boston, 1713)

Sometimes there was no gap between joke and real.

Where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruin.

What you resist, persists. What you look at disappears. That is, it ceases to have its illusory form. You see it for what it Is. And what Is can always be changed. It is only what Is Not that cannot be changed. Therefore, to change the Isness, move into it. Do not resist it. Do not deny it.

Because unity is the truth. Separatism is the illusion.

There is nothing in your reality to hold onto. Yet if you do choose the illusion of your life over ultimate reality, you may simply recreate it—just as you created it to begin with. In this way you may have in your life what you choose to have and eliminate from your life what you no longer wish to experience. Yet never resist anything. If you think that by your resistance you will eliminate it, think again. You only plant it more firmly in place.

Fear is an illusion created by the mind, and while we cling to our perception of fear, we will never experience true freedom.

Y este lapso de "tiempo" entre el pensamiento y la creación —el cual puede ser de días, semanas, meses e incluso años— es el que crea la ilusión de que las cosas te están sucediendo a ti, no debido a ti. Ésta es una ilusión, que provoca que olvides que tú eres la causa de este asunto.

Nothing in this world is real

I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.

Time is a person-made concept.

Time is a person-made concept." "Really? Where'd you hear that?" "I made it up." "I don't know if that's true. We all live within time. It rules us." "I use my time how I want, so I rule it.

Oh boy, now it looked like a duck

It's the art of letting people deceive themselves without actually telling them lies.

Well, he said, opening the door to his car, all you can do is put on an appearance of confidence sometimes. And after a while, others will start to believe it. [Eric Weber] grabbed the door handle to pull it closed. And then you die.

Whenever people idealize their caretakers, chances are pretty good that the opposite is true. Sometimes illusion is created by the parents, who insists in godlike fashion that they're perfect and that the child owes them obedience because they're responsible for his or her existence. Other times the illusion is created by the child as a survival strategy, disconnecting from reality in order to avoid the pain of growing up in a toxic enviroment.

Rather than having actual freedom, it seemed that, like animals in a habitat in the zoo, we had only the illusion of freedom. As long as we didn't try to leave the cage, we'd never know we weren't actually free.

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.

this was the Middle East. The land of the mirage, the shimmering pond in the sand that drew you farther into the deadly desert, and when you arrived at the lifesaving water, it disappeared, and you discovered the bones of those who'd been there before you. You discovered death.

You know what an idealist is? That's a man who notices that a rose smells better than a cabbage, so he thinks the rose will make a better soup.

Até então julgara-se feliz e, de repente, descobre que sua felicidade não existe

Into the world of romance, of make-belief and double brandies!

If you judge after appearances, you will continue to be enslaved by the evidence of your senses.