Quotes About Illusion

To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

God alone is real, and all else is illusion.

In the course of time one does not feel even the existence of God. After attaining enlightenment one sees that gods and deities are all Maya.

Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.

Oh my God. Lift me up out of this illusion, Lord. Heal my perception that I might know only reality and only you.

God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all the beautiful expanse around it as dangerous and swarming with snakes.

Does one get faith by mere studying of books? Too much reading creates confusion. The Master used to say that one should learn from the scriptures that God alone is real and the world illusory.

God, it would be good to be a fake somebody rather than a real nobody.

The Pope doesn't believe in God; Did you ever see a conjurer who believed in Magic ?

God is a placebo for your own mortality.

Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.

We see God and the devil making fools of each other, and we nurture in ourselves the absolutely unshakable conviction that both of them are drunk.

Humility does not live in the prison of illusion that says that this world is a dark and terrible place. Those perceptions are phantoms; everything is eternity, God, divine.

God has this...hobby. He creates perfection. This world is not perfect. We have to learn to separate illusions from reality.

God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.

I know there are supposedly happy people in this world. I never believed it, but I take it for granted. God knows, they're all on television.

Sin promises like a God but pays like a Devil

After all, if it comes to that, there is really neither Ogun nor Jesus! There are only mystified forms of our consciousness.

All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged. What is meant by God-realization is to actually experience this important thing that the soul is eternal.

What kind of god is it that some human brain can shatter the illusions that have been built up around such a deity? God's a mystery. I'll never be able to tell you what God is.

no one ever really leaves Hollywood. No one really leaves unless they are called away by God. Even then, the impulse would be to come back again and make a movie about the experience.

To imagine that "God moves in mysterious ways" is to put up a smokescreen of mystery behind which fantasy may survive in spite of all the facts.

God could easily appear and clear up the global religious chaos and confusion. But a delusion can never appear in reality.