Quotes about Illusion

His room smelled of cooked grease, Lysol, and age, but his face believed the freshness of his words, and I had no heart nor art to drag him back to the reeking reality of our life and times.

Believing that things happen too slowly or too quickly is an illusion. Timing is perfect.

Control is an illusion. It doesn't work.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a fact, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system," wrote Dr. Wayne W. Dyer in Your Erroneous Zones.2

Control is an illusion. It doesn't work. We cannot control alcoholism. We cannot control anyone's compulsive behaviors—overeating, sexual, gambling—or any of their behaviors. We cannot (and have no business trying to) control anyone's emotions, mind, or choices. We cannot control the outcome of events.

Of this I'm certain: If in our pursuit of greater knowledge God seems to have gotten smaller, we have been deceived.

If in our pursuit of knowledge God seems to have gotten smaller, we have been deceived.

Delusion never delivers.

He feeds on ashes. His deceived mind has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself, or say, "Isn't there a lie in my right hand?" Isaiah 44:20

The world sees christians as people who use faith as a crutch. How wrong they are. The biggest crutch of all is deceit.

You're supposed to learn that things that you think are nothing, as weightless as air, are actually powerful substantial forces, as real and as solid as earth.   I understood. The eagle was telling me that dreams, visions, meditations such as this very one—things that I had till now disdained as fantasy and illusion—were as real and as solid as anything in my waking life.

Often, "reality" means nothing more than conventional reality. And conventional reality is almost always wrong. Ask Dick Rowe of Decca Records, who turned down the Beatles.