Facebook gives people an illusory sense of being LIKED.

Tomorrow is an illusion suggesting that another chance always exists. It is a dangerously false illusion.

What to wear: An employee chooses. How to dress: His employer chose.

The present is the closest that you will ever get to the future.

Words, with their multiple meanings and nuances are like trees and oral communication like a forest. Trees are good for hiding, forest for losing the path. When one is trying to contemplate the horizon of...

In some languages (Hindi is one), every perception is called “seeing”. Maybe, the trick is to rely on the eyes less and less as one perceives more and more.

Perhaps the universe is a big fat consciousness and the matter is just an illusion.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

Magicians made magic but critics made it tricks.

So deep is the conflict, I believe I cannot breathe for all the doubt, guilt and sorrow my sister is pushing into me as her hand presses harder upon my sore breastplate and her fingers...

Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don’t know the difference.George: No, but we must carry on as though we did.Martha: Amen.

Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.

(On the seeming futility of metaphysics) Why then has nature afflicted our reason with the restless striving for such a path, as if it were one of reason’s most important occupations? Still more, how little...

…people live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true… that is how they define reality. But what does it mean to be correct or true? Merely vague concepts… their reality may...

It’s hard for a masked man to hide behind a mask when he isn’t wearing one.

Illusion close to reality was your love, you certainly are quintessential with your licks and promises.

That’s when I saw you, really saw you for the first time. I didn’t intend to look at you, it just happened. It was like those pictures, you know, those optical illusions. You can gaze...

When my mind plays tricks on me I can deal. But when my mind plays tricks on my mind I can not tell what’s real

We can create the world where we are with the ones we want to love so easily.

Does anybody know which are the thoughts of God, even if they are plants, mountains, sky, stars or whatever else?

There is only Love — and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.

As a general rule, in the world of magic, the most successful magician is the one who has enough patience to keep the secrets of his original magic effects.

[If you] give into your [emotional] illusions, and you will find yourself lost in a maze with no exits, nor entrances, but winding paths that lead you in circles so many times that you grow...

Something Simon composed years ago is playing on someone else’s personal headphones; it’s a man sat opposite him in the waiting room. He believes the man is destroying his piece by reading a car magazine...

We have an illusion of security, we don’t have security.

Until you really loving, kind, caring, and compassionate, happiness will be an illusion to you.

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

Sus palabras eran el extintor de incendios que acababa de apagar una discreta llama: la historia que inconcientemente Francisca había comenzado a escribir en su cabeza.

(…) the woman we love ought to swim as slowly as we do, she ought to have no past of her own to look back on happily. But when the illusion of absolute identity vanishes...

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be, like the reality of yesterday, an illusion tomorrow.

*Forever* is an illusion that human beings promise each other when they are horny, or, trying to appear holy.

They sell crap to buy you.

The illusion of choice is the greatest magic trick ever performed.

You fight your superficiality, you shallowness, as as to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance, as untank-like as you can be, sans cannon and machine guns...

Once you are able to move beyond the concept of time, so too will you move beyond having any judging or condemning thoughts or feelings about any being, situation or event. When you have nothing...

Sometimes for the spectators a great magic effect is worth a life’s experience.

Stay faithful to consciousness, rest everything is illusion including your mind. Simply be aware without adulterations from intellegience.

Gore Vidal, for instance, once languidly told me that one should never miss a chance either to have sex or to appear on television. My efforts to live up to this maxim have mainly resulted...

That was why, later on, he began to lose interest in photography: first when colour took over, then when it became plain that the old magic of light-sensitive emulsions was waning, that to the rising...

I’ll take away your disillusionment, and replace it with an illusion.

Again I see you, But me I don’t see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of me I see in each fatal fragment – Only a...

Trust is such a devious term. When you trust someone, are you not merely assuming that they are what they say that they are? If you place so much in the trust that you have...

Since it is impossible to know what’s really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read,...

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.

Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cherishing of your identity,...

My borrowed power insists that negative situations, too, assist me on the path to greater becoming. It’s never about the circumstance(s); these are surface level ‘symptomatics’. How we deal with the energy it brings, however,...

As long as we take thought, we will continue to matter”.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion

My life is exactly what it’s meant to be, and I’m okay. I’m. Okay. Those two words, yeah, they mean a lot to me. I’m not perfect, I’m not completely healed, but I’m okay. I’ll...

Pain is usually all on the surface, but this terror is internal; not just a hurt, but a new language of feeling.