Quotes About Illusion

Knowledge about a thing is not the thing itself.

Art is something which lies in the slender margin between the real and the unreal.

Oh, believe me, I know the story," he said. "It's a crutch, isn't it? It's a fairy tale. For the weak. It's stupidity. See

Oh, time," Dane said. "Time time time. Time's always a bit more fiddly than you reckon.

The ?tman, the pure Consciousness, gets Itself deluded by Its own delusion and by Itself projects out the 'pluralistic world' which is nothing but Itself, It being the all-pervading and eternal.

Just as in the dream, the agitated mind creates a delusory dream world and the dreamer identifying himself with it takes it to be real and gains experience thereunder; so too in the waking state, the waker's mind being agitated, projects itself to a world of delusory plurality and he gains therein his experience of a world, seemingly real for him for the time being.

But truth, when it's being lived, is less glamorous than our imaginings.

don't create snakes out of ropes. You have enough to worry about.

How innocent we'd been, thinking that if only we willed something hard enough, it would come true.

Sometimes I wonder if there is such a thing as reality, an objective and untouched nature of being. Or if all that we encounter has already been changed by what we had imagined it to be. If we have dreamed it into being.

In your yearning you have made me into that which I am not.

Just as you've deceived me, so will your mind deceive you. When you need the Brahmastra the most, you'll forget the mantra needed to call it up.

Anything that makes us forget our true selves is a trap, princess—even something we love or define as beautiful.

The truth is less glamorous than our imagination.

A volte mi chiedo se la realtà esiste davvero, se c'è varamente una natura delle cose, obiettiva e intatta. O se tutto ciò che ci accade è già modificato in anticipo dalla nostra immaginazione. Se sognando qualcosa gli diamo vita.

have forgotten it all, and anyway there is nothing to remember; everything is illusion, yet I am confident that all is well." Just before his death the old man said, "When I die you must not move my body for a week; this is all that I desire.

I worry that we all just sat around, after a while, trying to enjoy a ride that was never meant to be fun.

It was something he would figure out only after Bobby dumped him: that his imagination was what made the real world, and real people, only barely palatable for him.

But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.

he loved who he thought she was.

But the door …' Tom grinned. 'Was only ever in your mind.

You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. ... Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be a certain way when we're adults and if they're not that way, we should make them be; or at least pretend. But after a certain point that just doesn't work.

But if you don't take the necessary steps to make them happen, dreams are just mirages that mess with your head!

This is all a dream and we're both asleep right now.