Quotes About Illusion

Movies are the shadiest business in the world.

They're always wrong in the movies.

The more you look, the less you see.

Dreams were the first movies.

Movies are romantic fantasies.

...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.

Within the body there is played Music unending, though without stringed instruments That music of the Word pervades the entire creation Who listens to it is freed from all illusion

Life is but a dream for the dead.

The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.

Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.

One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony.

The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.

All rock music is fake news.

The Divine realm extends to the earthly; but the later, illusory in nature, does not contain the essence of Reality.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there's still a part of us who wants to believe in an alternative reality, where we can defy the laws of nature.

This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.

Samsara is the mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections. Nirvana is the mind turned inwardly, recognizing its true nature.

Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.