Illusion Quotes

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The illusion holds power over you when you are not able to remember that you are a powerful spirit that has taken on the physical… — Gary Zukav
Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached. — Simone Weil
The greatest illusion is that mankind has limitations. — Robert Monroe
As a holistic being you shatter the illusion of your separateness and reveal your connection to everything. This empowers you in a way that the… — Wayne Dyer
When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The… — Ingmar Bergman
The more we retreat from the culture at large the more room we will have to carve out lives of meaning, the more we will… — Chris Hedges
The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We… — C. Wright Mills
Perhaps lovers aren't supposed to look down at the ground. That kind of story is told in symbols-and earth represents reality, and reality represents frustrations,… — Virginia C. Andrews
The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the plane of its… — Susan Stewart
The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness. — Gaston Bachelard
All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A… — Albert Camus
..The past is only an unreliable memory held in the present. The future is only a projection of our present conceptions. The present itself vanishes… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Praise of power leads to weakness; Love of things leads to loss; The wise one leads by filling people's hearts; He destroys illusion and disturbs… — Laozi
In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed, America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of bachelor independence. That… — Barbara Tuchman
Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith. — Harry Allen Overstreet
A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us, all their fancies,… — Christina Stead
The nature of illusion is that, when you see through it, it disappears. — Mooji
The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to… — Lafcadio Hearn
Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous. — Peter Kreeft
This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth. — Unknown Author
Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations. — Deepak Chopra
This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion. — Swami Vivekananda
Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion. — Marguerite Young
The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion concerning painting (which… — John Berger

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