Illusions Quote by Bodhidharma Download Open image “Words are illusions.” — Bodhidharma ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Illusions Language Words
Words are inaccurate pointers to reality and should by no means be trusted. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions. — John Langdon Copy Share Image
There's so many different types of illusions; our lives are an illusion in a sense. — Jihae Copy Share Image
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind,… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
“To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you; to engage in debate is to ultimately serve the illusions… — Oli Anderson Copy Share Image
Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“A great magician is not more magical than other magicians; he is just more magical in his presentation.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Subhuti, someone might fill innumerable worlds with the seven treasures and give all away in gifts of alms, but if any good man or… — Siddhārtha Gautama Copy Share Image
Way up high in the Shenandoah Mountains where I live, it is difficult to maintain illusions about the natural world. It is dying. — Wil S. Hylton Copy Share Image
“Illusions fall away one after another like the husks of a fruit, and that fruit is experience. It is bitter to the taste, but… — Gérard de Nerval Copy Share Image
“You see, that is why it is so easy to fool people with our illusions, Yue. In this world, illusions are usually much kinder… — Zoë Marriott Copy Share Image
“Noi fummo i Gattopardi, i Leoni; quelli che ci sostituiranno saranno gli sciacalletti, le iene; e tutti quanti gattopardi, sciacalli e pecore, continueremo a… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
