Quotes about Illusion

The powers of insanity never slept, always vying for a voice that justified their lies. Insanity. The insane self. The false self. The flesh self. The ego, the mistaken mind, the costume, the roommate…

invaded you and blinded you to the light.

Her fear was gone, not only mostly, but completely, because it had been sustained by an illusion that was no longer part of her reality. The

A poet has written, "The desire to feel loved is the last illusion: let it go and you will be free." Just as the sunrise of faith requires the sunset of our former unbelief, so the dawn of trust requires letting go of our craving spiritual consolations and tangible reassurances. Trust at the mercy of the response it receives is a bogus trust.

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

Jesus came to announce to us that an identity based on success, popularity and power is a false identity- an illusion! Loudly and clearly he says: 'You are not what the world makes you; but you are children of God.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Although after many years of living we often feel more lonely, hostile and filled with illusions than when we had hardly a past to reflect upon, we also know better than before that all these pains have deepened and sharpened our urge to reach out to a solitary, hospitable and prayerful mode of existence.

I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful—while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.

Do not engage to find things as you think they are.

We get only transient and partial glimpses of the beauty of the world. Standing at the right angle, we are dazzled by the colors of the rainbow in colorless ice. From the right point of view, every storm and every drop in it is a rainbow.