Quotes About Illusion

We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.

As so often in life, things are not always what it seems.

that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.

How perverse! just when everything seems to be in order and as families gather round the table to have supper,the phantom of the superclass appears,selling impossible dreams:luxury,beauty,power.And the family falls apart

Knowledge is an illusion. Ecstasy is the true reality. Knowledge fills us with guilt. Ecstasy allows us to be one with he who is the Universe, before it existed, and after it has been destroyed.

Each would always be fascinated by the other–so long as each remained exactly what the other imagined.

At some point of our life, we will lose control of everything surrounds us and we will be controlled by the fate. That is the world's biggest lie.

But the greatest wisdom could be blinded by the glare of vanity.

I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.

We see the world in terms of what we would like to see happen, not what actually does.

We looked for the easiest way out: a separate reality.

I think, knowing full well that we always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want ant as they are.

Yo lloro por Narciso, pero nunca me di cuenta de que Narciso fuera bello. Lloro por Narciso porque cada vez que él se recostaba sobre mi orilla yo podía ver, en el fondo de sus ojos, mi propia belleza reflejada.

Why do people prefer to believe in something far away and forget what is there before their eyes, a true manifestation of the miracle?

What's the world's greatest lie?" the boy asked, completely surprised. "It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.

Because what looks like crazy on an ordinary day can look like love howling if you see it in the moonlight.

What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.

The idea that there could be one solution to breast cancer- screening, early detection, some universal cure- is certainly appealing. All of us, those who fear the disease, those who live with it, our friends and families, the corporations who swath themselves in pink, wish it were true. Wearing a bracelet, sporting a ribbon, running a race, or buying a pink blender expresses our hopes and that feels good - even virtuous. But making a difference is more complicated than that.

I'd believed I could keep out the tales and the toys but had failed on both counts.

The mind is always seeking zones of safety, and these zones of safety are continually falling apart. Then we scramble to get another zone of safety back together again. We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's samsara. The

Don't make gods into demons.

Renunciation is realizing that nostalgia for samsara4 is full of shit.

In any case, the point is not to try to get rid of thoughts, but rather to see their true nature. Thoughts will run us around in circles if we buy into them, but really they are like dream images. They are like an illusion—not really all that solid. They are, as we say, just thinking.

When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter " And proved it - 'twas no matter what he said.