159 quotes found
“Trust is such a devious term. When you trust someone, are you not merely assuming that they are what they say that they are? If you place so much in the trust that you have for that one person, the...”
“How do you write a memory? For that matter, what is a memory? A remembrance, a dream of the past that floats into the present on occasion? What are memories? Are they illusion? For if memory is ill...”
“The concept of Time is but the span of our memory.”
“Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.”
“Illusion (moha) is to take a beating and then forget, to take another beating and then forget again.”
“Illusion means to weigh right and wrong with the same scale.”
“The light changed slightly. Mari looked up and over at one wall. There was now a narrow, roughly door-shaped hole in it. Standing in the hole was Mage Alain. Mari stood up, realizing that her mouth...”
“Magic is always an illusion and love a magic of illusion.”
“What an utter disgrace it would be to find something truly magic and spend any time at all pretending and trying to convince yourself it is all just an unbelievably orchestrated and beautifully cho...”
“if all of life were an illusion then the instruments science would use to measure reality could not be depended upon.”
“There is no illusion in awaken mind, because everything is perceived as impermanent and transient.”
“Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.”
“Beware! Success is not what you think it is. It's a trap.”
“The Illusory SelfI am composed of body and soul, I seem to have mind, reason, sense, yet I find none of them my own. For where was my body prior to my birth, and whither will it go when I have depa...”
“The obstacle in spritual growth is not ignorance of self, it is the illusion of self.”
“Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.”
“All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world two snake pits.”
“Wondering is positive illusion.”
“I am born anew at each green fall of the die, and by die-ing I eliminate my since. The past - paste, pus, piss - is all only illusory events created by a stone mask to justify an illusory stagnant ...”
“Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources.”
