“That which is seen and that which is touched are of a dream-like and illusion-like nature. Because feeling arises together with the mind, it is not [ultimately] perceived.” MindFeelingsDreamTogetherIllusionAriseTouched Author:Shantideva
“We are but shadows: we are, not endowed with real life, and all that seems most real about us is but the thinnest substance of a dream,--till the heart be touched. That touch creates us--then we begin to be--thereby we are beings of reality and inheritors of eternity.” HeartRealDreamRealitySeemsEmotionShadowEternityReal LifeSubstanceTouched Book:Selected Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne Source: Selected Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne