Quotes about Illusion

Fantasies can be great, but we shouldn't make the wedding a fantasy, because the wedding is the gateway to married life. It shouldn't be a moment of illusion; it should be a moment of preparation.

All gold does not glitter.

We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside

Success is when you're seduced into thinking that your joy and satisfaction are not here but there--somewhere in the future, at some moment when you accomplish X or you win Y. Success can never get enough. It makes your head spin, because you get that thing you were desperately working for, for all those years, and when you get it, you realize that it isn't what you thought it was.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

If people are foolish, they are bound to mix the personality and the Truth, and to build a temple around the personality and form a religion.

Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.

Know, by sad experience, what it is to be lulled to sleep with a false peace. Long was I lulled asleep; long did I think myself a Christian, when I knew nothing of the Lord Jesus Christ.

There is no holy life. There is no war between good and evil. There is no sin and no redemption. None of these things matter to the real you. But they all matter hugely to the false you, the one who believes in the separate self. You have tried to take your separate self, with all its loneliness and anxiety and pride, to the door of enlightenment. But it will never go through, because it is a ghost.

Yet the only reason you believe that you were born is that your parents saw you emerge from the womb. They thought they witnessed the moment when you began to exist, so they spread the rumor that you had been born." Savitri was astonished. . .

To the wizard death is merely a belief.

Separation may just be an illusion. When we feel love in any form, it has the effect of beginning to shatter that illusion.