Quotes About Illusion

Me he pasado la vida soñando con mujeres imaginarias a las que convierto en reales.

Hell is never what you think it's going to be" -Guardian

They think they're the only ones who understand the real truth about the world, and that it's everyone else who's been tricked. . . . The biggest problem we have is that people like to fool themselves into thinking that they could never be fooled.

Everything felt both huge and small, as if the plane were hanging from a string held by the hands of gods.

In their brutal self-honesty and intentional stripping of illusion, the ammas remind us of our tendency to project our psychological issues onto others. This projection occurs when we find something emotionally unacceptable in us that we reject and attribute to others.

And of how we never really know someone, no matter how much we want to believe that we do.

But I seem to recall that you can rub the outside of an apple until it shines without ever eradicating the worm within.

An asshole who sometimes pretends to be nice totally has the ability to suck you back in, making you think that you had him all wrong.

He wouldn't have seen the wolf in redneck clothing.

There is betrayal here, in what I do, but in betrayal I am finally camouflaged.

There's nothing so attractive as a blank slate. Take one attractive man, slap on a thick coat of daydream, and voila, the perfect man. With absolutely no resemblance to reality.

You do not exist to serve the illusion. The illusion exists to serve you.

the way became narrower, they thought it was a river

What makes dreams so fascinating to this discussion is that when a person is dreaming, he or she believes that the dream is real.

The creation of artificial realities is not much different from how people enjoy today's movies depicting life in Ancient Egypt, life during the Middle Ages, depiction of various wars, or life during the Renaissance.

The multiplicity of the mirrors does not affect the oneness of reflection in the numerous mirrors.

Academicians of the arcane fall prey to the illusion that they can label and control that which will always be partially Unknowable, Fluid and Chaotic. To approach spirituality from an academic point of view may yield valuable information about the framework of the spiritual way, but never about the Alchemical Mysteries themselves.

There is great hazard in assuming one knows what 'It' is. The more you try to identify 'It' the more one confuses the issue. Beware of those who say they've bottled 'It' and sell so-called 'It'. 'It' is not for sale.

When we face the Abyss, we stare into a mirror. In Shinto temples, there is a mirror. The purpose of this mirror is to remind the Murid of the fact that to see REALITY, it is necessary to see both oneself and the illusory nature of the self.

Yadabaoth's Earth is not real. The point for the reader to remember is that when a person feels and thinks that the world, in which he or she is living, is a horrible and loveless place, he or she has entered Yaldabaoth's mind.

Along with the gradual disappearance of true and profound spirituality, these evil forces want to fill humanity with false illusions and egotism. Human beings under the control of Alien Parasites display attraction to superficial matters such as: titles, award ceremonies, rank, knowledge for knowledge sake and so on. Humanity must rise above the temptations of egoic titles, obsessive study and the pursuit of an endless amount of university degrees and certificates of study.

They [alien parasites] make their victims (usually referred to as 'hosts') think the whole world is a kind of lie, a simulation.

who had thought she was having

With the illusion that we have dominion over the earth we conclude we have nothing to fear.