159 quotes found
“It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.”
“Because an illusion is an illusion. Reality always exists despite the facade.”
“Illusion is Reality's coy lover who cheers him when he is grim. Illusion is cunning to his wisdom of ages, weet oblivion to his knowledge. A bounty to his lack. [Sabine]”
“If it looks real and feels real, do you think it matters if it's real?”
“Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be, like the reality of yesterday, an illusion tomorrow.”
“The illusion is reality. The only contradiction is the observer.”
“And it all came to pass, all that she had hoped, but it did not fill her with rapture nor carry her away with the power or the fervor she had expected. She had imagined it all different, and had im...”
“Things aren't like this," he kept repeating. "It shouldn't be this way." As if he had access to some other plane of existence, some parallel, "right" universe, and had sensed that our time had some...”
“But George knows he can't do that. Because, absurdly, inadequately, in spite of himself, almost, he is a representative of the hope. And the hope is not false. No. It's just that George is like a m...”
“Physical reality does not require that we be pleased with its mechanism.”
“Worldly knowledge (laukik gnan) is called illusion (bhranti).”
“But love...it's only an illusion. A story one makes up in one's mind about another person. And one knows all the time it isn't true. Of course one knows why one's always taking care not to destroy ...”
“There is a vast difference between sakshibhaav [being a witness; witnessing state] and Gnata-Drashta bhaav [Knower-Seer state]. Some saints may have attained sakshibhaav but they [still] have to ma...”
“The belief of Gnan (Knowledge of the Self) is known as samkit (Right belief). Ignorant belief is known as mithyatva (illusion).”
“Religion stops the loot of illusion; and through non-religion, the loot of illusion begins.”
“One does not see what is there and sees what is not there, that is called moha (illusory vision).”
“Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.”
“Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present. ”
“Time is, indeed, a strange and wondrous thing. It has no beginning or end, it seems. Time goes on, forward and backward, this way and that. But perspective is an illusion, for we know all things be...”
“A story is nothing but a lie. An illusion. And that illusion only works if we trust in it.”
