Quotes About Illusion

Soup not only warms you and is easy to swallow and to digest, it also creates the illusion in the back of your mind that Mother is there.

When students scoff at the idea of a magical relation between a picture and what it represents, ask them to take a photograph of their mother and cut out the eyes.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Indeed, most magicians catch the bug as kids. My first audience was my family in Long Island. My first 'assistant' was my mother, whom I levitated on a broom in our living room.

The happy family is a myth for many.

When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.

The only thing that endures is character. Fame and wealth-all that is illusion. All that endures is character.

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion 'I am God' cannot be made with regard to the sense-world.

These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

The quick lesson that I learned is that none of the fame part is really real.

A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.

A balloon seller sells his breath till death to spread happiness, while he can't taste any of it.

Delusion is the seed of dreams.

There is nothing so special or boring nor there are any weak or strong things in this world. It is we and our surficial perception that creates these types of environment

Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened.

The one who believes himself to be a person needs to try to find that person. This is a solution, an antidote, offered to a ghost that thinks it actually exists.

Nothing can be the total truth in the worlds of manifestation and the more solid your concepts, the more likely they are going to sink you, sooner or later.

In enlightenment, the seer and the seen disappear. Or, more accurately, are seen through as illusions. In reality, they were never there, apart from being concept and misunderstanding.

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

There's no thief like a bad movie.

That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick.