© Silver Lining Of Your Cloud 2014
Silver Lining Of Your Cloud
Life Quotes and Sayings
Illusion
Never forget that the life of this world is only a game and a passing delight, a
show…the life of this world is nothing but a deception. ~Quran 20:57
The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and
motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one. ~Brooks Atkinson
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. ~Edward Abbey
The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape
finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. ~Marcus Aurelius
The enlightened man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not
act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering. ~Buddha
When you awaken, you realize that the separate person you took yourself to
be is just a contract, a mental fabrication. ~Stephan Bodian
Why aren’t you happy? It’s because ninety-nine percent of everything you
do, and think, and say, is for youself–and there isn’t one. ~Wu Wei Wu
We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality, we are
that reality. When we understand this you see you are nothing, and in being
nothing you are everything. ~Buddha
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance–it is the illusion of
knowledge. ~Daniel J. Boorstin
All beings are inherently enlightened, but because of their attachments and
distorted views, they can’t realize this fact. ~Shakyamuni Buddha
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you
are out there. ~Yasutami Roshi
Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that
which you are. ~Kabir
That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is
delusion.
That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is
awakening.
~Dogen Zenji
Do not seek the truth; simply cease cherishing illusions. ~Zen master Seng-
t’san
We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness. ~Thich Nhat
Hanh
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by
someone who is detached. ~Simone Weil
When your illusions clash with reality, when your falsehoods clash with
truth, then you have suffering. ~Anthony de Mello
Problems exist only in the human mind. ~Anthony de Mello
Whatever people think of you is really about the image they have of you, and
that image isn’t you. ~Don Miguel Ruiz
The real illusion is to believe that we are separate from God. ~Omraam
Mikhael Aivanhov
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the
present, which is what there is and all there is. ~Alan Watts
When you feel the need arise to be defensive about anything, you have
identified yourself with an illusion. ~A Course in Miracles
We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. ~Rabindranath Tagore
Your mind can be possessed by illusions, but spirit is eternally free. ~A
Course in Miracles
Confusion is the result of attempting to cling to illusion in the face of what
you are seeing to be true for you. If you will continue to look, the confusion
will give way to clarity. And the clarity is compassion. ~unknown
This waking life is just a long dream which keeps our attention away from
what we really are. If you take the attitude that all the happenings in the
world are dream events, your mind becomes tranquil. It is only when you
take the dream world to be real that you get agitated. ~Annamalai Swami
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. ~Ludwig Börne
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thought.
So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion. ~Alan Watts
All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the
veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest. ~Bayazid Al-Ristami
Chasing after fantasies is always a bad idea. Stick with reality. Reality’s all
you’ve got. But here’s the real secret, the real miracle: It’s enough. ~Brad
Warner
The good news is: If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The
recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your
mistaking it for reality. In the seeing of who you are not, the reality of who
you are emerges by itself. ~Eckhart Tolle
The truth has eternity on its side. Your illusions have a shelf-life. There’s
only so long you can tell yourself lies before you run smack into a cement
wall and fall on your head in divine bliss. ~Jeannie Zandi
Awareness alone will overcome illusion. ~Kabir
One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of
our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves. ~B. Alan Wallace
But opinions, judgments, memories, dreaming about the future—ninety
percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential
reality. ~Charlotte J. Beck
A mind that is always comparing, always measuring, will always engender
illusion. If I am measuring myself against you, who are clever, more
intelligent, I am struggling to be like you and I am denying myself as I am. I
am creating an illusion. ~Jiddu Krishnamurti
This is not the real reality. The real reality is behind the curtain. In truth, we
are not here. This is our shadow. ~Rumi
It’s not about becoming true, it’s about unbecoming false, so that all that’s
left is truth. ~Jed McKenna
If you are feeling thirsty you need real water, not dream water. ~Osho
Truth is eternal; whatever you can grasp is unreal. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj