Quotes About Illusion

All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.

The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.

Imagination is the other end of Reality.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

The sweetest things in life to you were just loaned, so how can you lose what you've never owned.

If nothing is the way it seems, then this life is just a haunted dream.

Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security.

The menu is not the meal.

Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.

REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.

My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!

The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.

When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say.

Sexuality, for the person who practices tantra, is a marvelous way to experience illusion. Illusion is just another way of seeing things. There are no illusions because there is no self.

If we are in a high enough state of consciousness we see that life is only a passing dream.

We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.

A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps. Maps are pictures of what isn't.

Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

Living on earth and expecting to be surrounded by angels?Sure recipe for a heartache!

There is no illusion in awaken mind, because everything is perceived as impermanent and transient.

Life is beautiful, but we often forget and decorate it with ugliness.

Those who look outside can only see an illusion. Those who look inside may see the reality.

Life feels good if you don't know what it is.

What he imagines evokes nothing imaginary, it evokes the reality of the world that experience and reason treat in a confused manner.