Illusion Quotes - Page 9

• But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memorable, Unrequited Love, Heartbreaking

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• A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement. It's more like if you did an illuminated novel. I think both of those things should be running at full blast, not less of both so it becomes an easier thing. I think it should be twice as dense. That's just what interests me.

  Ben Katchor

  Running, Thinking, Stories

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For nearly a hundred years, we have known that the material world is an illusion. Everything that seems solid - a rock, a tree, your body - is actually 99.999% empty space.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Rocks

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• Our self (Soul) is maya (an illusion) where it is merely individual and finite, where it considers its separateness as absolute; it is satyam (truth) where it recognizes its essence in the universal and infinite, in the Supreme Self, in paramatman (God). This is what Christ means when he says, "Before Abraham was, I am" (i.e. before Abraham was God, who is the same that is in my soul - I am That.)

  Rabindranath Tagore

  God, Mean, Self

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• The first part of the spiritual journey should properly be called psychological rather than spiritual because it involves peeling away the myths and illusions that have misinformed us.

  Sam Keen

  Spiritual, Journey, Soul

  Sam Keen (1995). “Hymns to an unknown God: awakening the spirit in everyday life”, Bantam

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• The master and the student on the journey to mastery, knows that the illusions are the illusions, decides why they are there, and then consciously creates what will be experienced next within the self through the illusions. When facing any life experience, there is a formula, a process, through which you may choose to move through mastery. Simply make the following statements: One, nothing in my world is real. Two, The meaning of everything is the meaning I give it. Three, I am who I say I am, and my experience is what I say it is. This is how to work with the illusions of life.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Real, Moving

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• Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Live By, Knows

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• The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.

  Albert Einstein

  Tragedy, Existence, Humans

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• Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mean, Past, Forgiving

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Aug 14, 2013

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• The journey of life is a mental one, which is taking place in the sea of illusion.

  Neville Goddard

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Everything that you see before you with your physical eyes is an illusion. In other words, you are not seeing correctly. Life is made up of light. But if you are only looking through the senses, it seems solid and physical.

  Frederick Lenz

  Eye, Light, Life Is

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• As soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Reality, Consistency, Fiction

  Slavoj Žižek (1993). “Tarrying with the negative: Kant, Hegel, and the critique of ideology”, Duke University Press Books

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• A mystic sees beyond the illusion of separateness into the intricate web of life in which all things are expressions of a single Whole. You can call this web "God, the Tao, the Great Spirit, the Infinite Mystery, Mother or Father," but it can be known only as love.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Mother, Father, Expression

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• 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.

  Anthony de Mello

  Reality, Ideas, People

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• The New Testament is a brutal destroyer of human illusions. If you follow Jesus and don't end up dead, it appears you have some explaining to do. The stark signifier of the human condition is one who spoke up for love and justice and was done to death for his pains. The traumatic truth of human history is a mutilated body.

  Terry Eagleton

  Jesus, Pain, Justice

  Terry Eagleton (2014). “Reason, Faith, & Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate”, p.27, Yale University Press

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• People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves must examine everything, and soak up learning the way the roots of a tree soak up water.

  James A. Baldwin

  Roots, Creating, Water

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• What they say about a breakthrough is completely an illusion. They are sending their warplanes to fly very low in order to have vibrations on these sacred places.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Order

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• Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Errors, World

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• The illusion of design is so successful that to this day most Americans (including, significantly, many influential and rich Americans) stubbornly refuse to believe it is an illusion.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Successful, Design

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• He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Loss, Suffering

  Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Scaramouche Plus Bardelys the Magnificent”, p.16, DoctorZed Publishing

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• Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Real, Names, Form

  Eckhart Tolle (2004). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.197, New World Library

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• I am not anti-Bush. I am not pro-Iraq. I am pro-peace. I have written a song and created a video which expresses my feelings about our culture and values and illusions of what many people believe is the American dream - the perfect life. Madonna Quotes.

  Unknown

  Dream, Song, Believe

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• I think human consciousness, is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself, we are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self; an accretion of sensory, experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody is nobody. Maybe the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight - brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.

  Unknown

  Brother, Thinking, Feelings

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• You can't really get the full joy out of life unless you really go for it. You just have to go into it and stay under some kind of hope or illusion that it's going to work. But as you get older, or the more experiences you have, or whatever it is that tells you how this stuff works, you also know that if you go all the way into it, there's the risk of losing everything but you don't have a choice.

  Wayne Coyne

  Joy, Choices, Risk

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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