“\ Who can know the absolute truth of illusion or emptiness? That is why we feel the fulfilled sense of this world.” — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
“Each believed that the life he himself led was the only real life and the life led by his friend was nothing… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love's an illusion. It's a dream you wake up from with an enormous hangover and net credit debt. I'd rather have cash. — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Moha (infatuation due to illusion) means spiritual unconsciousness. Unconsciousness means not knowing your Self identity.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
You don't have to bathe every day to look clean. It's just an illusion. — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
If the theme is simple, you can include a hundred details that create the illusion of actuality better. — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming. — Aprilynne Pike Copy Share Image
Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and… — Jurgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As a clinician, I would never want to be coercive in relation to a patient, nor do I harbor the illusion that… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
Bijli fails in the dead of night / Won’t help to call “I need a light” / You’re in Karachi now /… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
I disagree very strongly with people saying "that battle is over." If you've started a battle, I don't think it ever ends.… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The illusion that humans possess free will is compounded by the inherent randomness of the universe. Chaos disguised as freedom of choice...” — Henry Lindell Copy Share Image
The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Many Sages have said, "Your world is a dream. You're living in an illusion." They're referring to this world of the mind… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“Philip thought that in throwing over the desire for happiness he was casting aside the last of his illusions. His life had… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“We only suffer when we falsely identify with the objects that arise in our awareness, rather than with the awareness itself—when we… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
As gay people, we always think outside of the box. The irreverent is always important to a drag queen and anyone else… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
From the time I was five years old, theater was all I knew. I did community theater; I went to theater school.… — Beth Behrs Copy Share Image
Our moral reasoning is plagued by two illusions. The first illusion can be called the wag-the-dog illusion: We believe that our own… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The rules of magic, my dear, are best not discusses. For once we understand the illusion, we no longer believe it. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope. — Sue Miller Copy Share Image
“Sometimes for the spectators a great magic effect is worth a life’s experience.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“We live in a world where illusion reigns and reality is frowned upon.” — Sanjo Jendayi Copy Share Image
Theres no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion. — Jenna Marbles Copy Share Image
Hallucinations and illusions are not facts useful for scientific investigation. — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
If an illusion makes a man happy, destroy that illusion! Because happiness must come via the truth! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the human race come to an end. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Intimacy is about acceptance - without acceptance intimacy becomes either an illusion or an exercise in futility and frustration. — Jordan Blake Michiels Copy Share Image
Ash Wednesday is full of joy...The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If silence only conveys the Self, if all words and thoughts are illusions, why do we discuss it? — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“My father looked on in disbelief, overwhelmed that his son had been taught to eat glass and relish it.” — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
