Browsing Topic Best Illusion Quotes

Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.

Fear is my friend. I love fear. Fear allows me to reach my highest potential. The fear of falling … is an illusion. Fear is an illusion.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

So much of this world is based on illusion, temporaries, and disposability that I think it’s essential that our closest relationships reflect what is real.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.

When you get out of the driver’s seat, you find that life can drive itself, that actually life has always been driving itself. When you get out of the driver’s seat, it can drive itself so much easier-it can flow in ways you never imagined. Life becomes almost magical. The illusion of the me is no longer in the way. Life begins to flow, and you never know where it will take you.

Freedom is not free. It takes billions of dollars worth of mass media propaganda to manufacture the illusion of freedom.

We must escape our illusions of correctness to understand the actions and beliefs of others.

I don’t think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.

I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don’t. It’s you who give this power to them.

A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Love is supposed to bring you peace and happiness. If you are not feeling this in a relationship, you are living an illusion.

You’ve got to drop something. You’ve got to drop illusions. You don’t have to add anything in order to be happy; you’ve got to drop something. Life is easy, life is delightful. It’s only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

Life is easy, life is delightful. It’s only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

I don’t care if you’re gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It’s all an illusion.

A mind now clouded by the illusions of the innate darkness of life is like a tarnished mirror, but when polished, it is sure to become like a clear mirror, reflecting the essential nature of phenomena and the true aspect of reality. Arouse deep faith, and diligently polish your mirror day and night. How should you polish it? Only by chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo

Mindfulness is a quality that’s always there. It’s an illusion that there’s a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you’re either mindful or you’re not.

Do you want a sign that you’re asleep? Here it is: you’re suffering. Suffering is a sign that you’re out of touch with the truth. Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth, that you might understand that there’s falsehood somewhere, just as physical pain is given to you so you will understand that there is disease or illness somewhere. Suffering occurs when you clash with reality. When your illusions clash with reality, when your falsehoods clash with truth, then you have suffering. Otherwise there is no suffering.

There is yet another illusion, that it is important to be respectable, to be loved and appreciated, to be important. Many say we have a natural urge to be loved and appreciated, to belong. That’s false. Drop this illusion and you will find happiness. We have a natural urge to be free, a natural urge to love, but not to be loved.

Drop your false ideas. See through people. If you see through yourself, you will see through everyone. Then you will love them. Otherwise you spend the whole time grappling with your wrong notions of them, with your illusions that are constantly crashing against reality.

Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.

Most of us carry into marriage not only our childlike illusions, but we bring to it as well the demand that it has to be wonderful, because it’s supposed to be.

The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.

Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.