Quotes About Illusion

There is no happiness in what worldly people believe happiness in, there is happiness in what Gnani [the enlightened one] believes the happiness in. What people regard as happiness is not happiness.

Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are.

I guess it's better to have a chalk smile, than an ink smile. Where chalk changes with the direction of wind, ink stays as a deep stain. Like rain, sun and hail against a fake plant.

I'm not the type of guy that will make you happy. I'm the type of guy that will make you forget how unhappy we all are.

The Frisbee is a round disk. That's the somethingness. But it has another side; it has a nothingness which you cannot perceive with your physical mind or your senses.

You are trying to pierce the veil, to break through the Frisbee so that it doesn't exist, to break through the football so it doesn't exist, and to break through your opponent so they don't exist.

There is no actual stress or anxiety in the world, your thoughts create these false beliefs.

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

Everyone or almost all eventually evade reality and we invent what we need.

A pod in the Matrix is looking pretty good right now.

If we have no other reality beyond the illusion, you too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable.

The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

You see, in recent history, the Democrat party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are what's best for black people.

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

She was a voice with a body as afterthought, a wry smile that sailed through heavy traffic. Give her a history and she'd disappear.Eric Packer about Vija Kinski

A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable.

Los Angeles is the home of the three little white lies: "The Ferrari is paid for," "The mortgage is assumable," and "It's just a cold sore!

You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.

As long as there is a 'you' doing or not-doing, thinking or not-thinking, 'meditating' or 'not-meditating' you are no closer to home than the day you were born.

It looks different when you're sober; I thought I had twice as much furniture.

Having never left the house you are looking for the way home