“All the manifest forms of existence are but illusions. They are momentary displays of consciousness, flashes of lightening in the sky. They are there for a moment and then they are gone.” MomentsFormExistenceConsciousnessGoneSkyIgnoranceIllusionManifestDisplayFlashMomentary Author:Frederick Lenz
“At the moment you're suffering from what we call Maya. Maya is illusion. Maya is a Sanskrit word that suggests that we have forgotten. We've forgotten the purpose of life.” MomentsPurposeSufferingIgnoranceIllusionForgottenPurpose Of LifeSanskrit Author:Frederick Lenz
“All those moments spent in concetration will give you a terrific strength and with that strength you will cut aside all illusions.” GivingMomentsCuttingIllusionYogaTerrific Author:Frederick Lenz
“We are everything and we are nothing. We are a forgotten moment. We don't even exist, which is the freeing part. We just think we do. That's the illusion.” ThinkingMomentsIllusionForgottenNothingness Author:Frederick Lenz
“The illusion for each soul is created by it intentions. Therefore, the illusion is alive at each moment with the most appropriate experiences that you can have in order for your soul to heal.” SoulMomentsOrderAliveIllusionIntentionHealYour SoulAppropriate Author:Gary Zukav
“It’s such a floating freak show. You get a bit older and you start to see what’s going on backstage in the collective psyche of this ridiculous industry. … Nothing pleases me more than when somebody who was awe-inspired to be working with me realizes I’m just another schmuck that they’re bored of hanging out with on a set. I love that moment. I like it when that persistent illusion is smashed.” MomentsShowsBitsRealizingIndustryPleaseIllusionInspiredRidiculousBoredAweCollectivesThat MomentHanging OutFreakFloatingPersistentPlease MeSchmucks Author:Robert Downey, Jr.
“But deepest of all illusory Appearances, for hiding Wonder, as for many other ends, are your two grand fundamental world-enveloping Appearances, SPACE and TIME. These, as spun and woven for us from before Birth itself, to clothe our celestial ME for dwelling here, and yet to blind it, lie all-embracing, as the universal canvas, or warp and woof, whereby all minor Illusions, in this Phantasm Existence, weave and paint themselves. In vain, while here on Earth, shall you endeavor to strip them off; you can, at best, but rend them asunder for moments, and look through.” WorldLooksTwoEndsMomentsEarthLyingSpaceExistenceWonderBirthIllusionUniversalFundamentalsBlindPaintAppearanceVainEndeavorHidingMinorsCanvasTime And SpaceDwellingCelestialWovenIllusorySpunWarp Book:Carlyle Reader Source: Carlyle Reader
“The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician. At the heart of things science finds only a mad, never-ending quadrille of Mock Turtle Waves and Gryphon Particles. For a moment the waves and particles dance in grotesque, inconceivably complex patterns capable of reflecting on their own absurdity.” HeartBookMomentsLastsLevelsCapableIllusionMadComplexesMetaphorWavePatternsTalesIdiotNonsenseMathematicianAbsurdityParticlesReflectingMockNever EndingGrotesqueTurtles Author:Martin Gardner
“As soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.” MomentsRealityLosesFictionIllusionLogicalConsistencyRenounce Book:Tarrying with the negative: Kant, Hegel, and the critique of ideology Source: Tarrying with the negative: Kant, Hegel, and the critique of ideology
“Zen, like life, defies exact definition, but its essence is the experience, moment by moment, of our own existence -- a natural, spontaneous encounter, unclouded by the suppositions and expectations that come between us and reality. It is, if you like, a paring down of life until we see it as it really is, free from our illusions; it is merely a divestment of ourselves until we recognize our own true nature.” IfsMomentsRealityNaturalExistenceIllusionExpectationsEssenceDefinitionsEncountersSpontaneousTrue NatureSuppositionZen Like Author:David Fontana