Brain Quote by Barry Long

Perception not only defines existence but it creates existence. It gives it form. Without perception there is no existence.

— Frederick Lenz

All existence is awareness & forms of awareness, within awareness, the self in disguise. There is nothing else.

— Anonymous

All the manifest forms of existence are but illusions. They are momentary displays of consciousness, flashes of lightening in the sky. They are there…

— Frederick Lenz

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Illusion doesn't mean that something is not real. Illusion simply means that something is less real than something else. This life and this world…

— Frederick Lenz

“To repeat: we can tolerate existence only if we believe—in accord with a complex of illusions, a legerdemain of impenetrable deception—that we are not…

— Thomas Ligotti

This thing that they call ''existence?'' What does it mean? I suppose I'm too busy living to know.

— Amber Hope

“A novel examines not reality but existence. And existence is not what has occurred, existence is the realm of human possibilities, everything that man…

— Milan Kundera

“The thoughtless habit of using the words “existence” and “exist” as designations for being is one more indication of our estrangement both from being…

— Martin Heidegger

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

— Arthur Erickson

Existence is the awareness of awareness.

— Frederick Lenz

Human beings are not capable of creating a thought that truly conceives of this existence. Nobody knows if we are really here, alive, or…

— Genesis P-Orridge