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Quotes about Illusion

Time is the illusion used to keep the illusion of mind going

Zen Buddhism
 
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An hour reflecting on one's own non-existence is better than a year of religious devotions with the thought that one exists.

Abu Sa'id Lbn Abi-L-Khayr
 
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The illusion
     that there will be some time in the future
           when all things will come together for us
                  interferes with our fully living today.
If we aren't living fully now,
      we never will.
The only time we ever have
      is the present.

John Gile
Source: Keeping First Things First
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For one who is truly ready to leave, to give up everything, to do anything to achieve full awareness in this lifetime...always radical means are essential in order to break free from this illusion in this lifetime.

I am Gourasana, and I make a very bold statement when I say I can guide you from this illusion – but I can.

Gourasana
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In any soul mate relationship, you will need to let go of the illusion that there is a perfect person waiting for you who will fulfill your every expectation and give your personality everything it desires once you are together. Do not expect your ideal soul mate to be someone who is always loving and easy to get along with, who agrees with everything you say or do, and who brings you a life of ease and comfort.

Sanaya Roman
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It is easy to imagine fantasy as physical and myth as real. We do it almost every moment. We do this as we dream, as we think, and as we cope with the world about us. But these worlds of fantasy that we form into the solid things around us are the source of our discontent. They inspire our search to find ourselves.

Evan Harris Walker : Gaia Child
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losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth

L. Boine
Source: L. Boine
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The world is not the illusion. It's you who are the illusion.

Chuck Hillig
Source: Seeds For The Soul
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Pain destroys the illusions of false, that is, elitist pleasures. It burns from the inside out. It, therefore, sensitizes us to what is truly beautiful in life.

Matthew Fox
 
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We were talking about the space between us all
And the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion

George Harrison
Source: Within You Without You
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The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 - )
Source: The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
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Despair is the only cure for illusion.

Alexander Lowen
 
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The mix of illusion and reality that runs through the play is also a particularly relevant theme at this time.  For this is at the heart of what we do each year.  With your participation, we visit people and worlds where the normal, earthbound laws of physics no longer apply. ... Not only is the play filled throughout with the imagery of dreams, but Puck even addresses the audience at the play's close with the advice that if they've not been pleased with what they've seen, they should just tell themselves that they've been dreaming, and will wake up with nothing lost.  And what's to say that we haven't been dreaming while this parade of characters has performed across the stretch of our imagination?

Harland Meltzer
Source: commenting on Shakespeare's *A Midsummer Night's Dream*
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The self is fundamentally an illusion arising as a reflection of the soul in matter, much as a clear lake at midnight reflects the moon.

Fred Alan Wolf
Source: The Spiritual Universe: One Physicist's Vision of Spirit, Soul, Matter, and Self
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When illusion spins her net
I'm never where I want to be
And liberty she pirouettes
When I think that I am free
Watched by empty silhouettes
Who close their eyes, but still can see
No one taught them etiquette
I will show another me

Peter Gabriel
Source: Solsbury Hill
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In many ways, constancy is an illusion.  After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few years; today we are migrants in time.  Unless teachers can hold up a model of lifelong learning and adaptation, graduates are likely to find themselves trapped into obsolescence as the world changes around them.  Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.

Mary Catherine Bateson
Source: Composing a Life
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So you think you've found the solution but it's just another illusion. 

Bob Marley
 
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Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand
And straight reality is always cold

Van Morrison
Source: Keep It Simple
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I've looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all

Joni Mitchell
Source: Both Sides Now
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Watch out now, take care,
Beware of soft shoe shufflers
Dancing down the sidewalks
As each unconscious sufferer
Wanders aimlessly,
Beware of Maya

George Harrison
Source: Beware of Darkness
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Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.  They are what we call civilization.

Barbara Kingsolver
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
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The one thing that matters is the effort.  It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Source: The Wisdom of the Sands
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Where do we people go if not towards the perfection of our own illusion?

Sorin Cerin : Gaia Child
Sorin Cerin
 
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Immortality is but an illusion to those who fear the inevitable, for true immortality lies in the hearts of those by whom we're cherished.

unknown : Gaia Child
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"Most people live by their illusions. Never let mere appearances become your reality."

"The hardest thing you'll learn in this journey is to give up the illusion of controlling your own life"

Jake Colsen
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"Regard the fleeting world like this: like stars fading and vanishing at dawn, like bubbles on a fast moving stream, like morning dewdrops evaporating on blades of grass, like a candle flickering in a strong wind; echoes, mirages, and phantoms, hallucinations, and like a dream.

unknown : Gaia Child
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Source: The Eight Similes of Illusion, from the Prajna Paramita Sutras
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There was a part of the mind - perhaps what we call the self-reflective or introspective function - that kept turning to look and, finding emptiness, kept sending the message that something was wrong. It was a reflex that had developed during the years of living in the illusion of individuality, a reflex we commonly consider necessary to our selves. We "look within" repeatedly to determine what we think and feels, to make a study of ourselves and track our states of mind and heart. Now that there was no longer an "in" to look "into", the self-reflective reflex was adrift, but persisted. It kept turning in and turning in, unable to come to terms with the fact that there was no in anymore, only emptiness.

Suzanne Segal
Source: Suzanne Segal from Collision with the Infinite p114
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Even when utterly alone, the self is forever relational, and therefore always looking... at something. At times with the bird's eye view, it looks up to see cosmic origins, at another time it glances down to see the hardened cocoon of the body. And then it sees that there are other meshes, of gender, culture, times, ambitions, or just the greatest restriction of all, the compulsion to communicate, the greatest illusion of our lonely lives.

Sunanda Mongia
Source: Preface to the book Upon My Word (a collection of poetry)
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Life is what happens when you jump out of your mind and use your senses.

Peter Cajander
 
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What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.

Ludwig von Mises : Gaia Explorer
Ludwig von Mises
Source: Mises, Ludwig Von (1962). The Ultimate foundation of Economic Science (2nd ed.). Foundation of Economic Education: Irvington-on-Hudson, NY. p. 123
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