All Quotes By Tag: Illusion

“Time is an illusion of life; the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present.”

“The Fall, a time when the illusion of the Maya fades away, a freedom from the identification with the illusory persona. For as the trees let go of their leaves to embrace the new season each year, there is no need to fight the shadows that form the illusion or the masks that form our egoic personas, but rather enjoy the illusion for what it is and find the freedom to accept and play a role outside of identification.”

“The distance of time’s separation brings us remnants of memories so ancient that most are lost in the mists of illusion…”

“The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”

“The illusion of fear accompanies goals to test the will to succeed.”

“Being successful is nothing but an act of removing the illusion that something is impossible.”

“I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there’s some kind of change.”

“Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.”

“Time is but an illusion created by beings with limited perception.”

“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.”

“I don’t mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that what wildlife remains can survive in what is left of the natural world). I know zoos are no longer in people’s good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusion about freedom plague them both.”

“We believe that it is possible for scientific work to gain some knowledge about the reality of the world, by means of which we can increase out power and in accordance with which we can arrange our life. If this belief is an illusion, then we are in the same position as you. But science has given us evidence by its numerous and important successes that it is no illusion.”

“When it comes to their love lives, some people do not really have high standards; they merely have low sex drive.”

“There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.”

“The same virtues, in the end, the same virtue (love), are required throughout, and fantasy (self) can prevent us from seeing a blade of grass just as it can prevent us from seeing another person. An increasing awareness of ‘goods’ and the attempt (usually only partially successful) to attend to them purely, without self, brings with it an increasing awareness of the unity and interdependence of the moral world. One-seeking intelligence is the image of faith.”