“[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear which binds together all humanity--the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.” ArtFeelingsDreamPainTogetherJoyArtistHumanitySpeakWonderCreativityOur LivesMysteryCreationSorrowIllusionCapacityDelightConvictionPityAspirationSubtleSolidarityFellowshipInvincibleUnbornLatentCreating Beauty Book:The Portable Conrad Source: The Portable Conrad
“The hardest thing to remember is that what we each really want is the truth of our lives, good or bad. Not rocking the boat is an illusion that can only be maintained by the unspoken agreement not to feel and in the long run it never really works. Let go of saving the boat and save the passengers instead.” WantFeelsLongRunningRememberOur LivesLetting GoIllusionHardestBoatSavingAgreementGood LifeLong RunsHardest ThingPassengersUnspokenRocking The Boat Author:Kenny Loggins
“In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.” ShouldRealityOrderOur LivesIllusionReach OutFabric Author:Walker Evans
“A crisis event often explodes the illusions that anchor our lives.” Our LivesEventsIllusionCrisisAnchors Author:Robert Veninga
“The illusion that mechanical progress means human improvement ... alienates us from our own being and our own reality. It is precisely because we are convinced that our life, as such, is better if we have a better car, a better TV set, better toothpaste, etc., that we condemn and destroy our own reality and the reality of our natural resources. Technology was made for man, not man for technology. In losing touch with being and thus with God, we have fallen into a senseless idolatry of production and consumption for their own sakes.” IfsMenHumansMeanMadeRealityNaturalTechnologyOur LivesProgressCarTvsLosingIllusionResourcesSakeProductionsConvincedImprovementFallenEtcConsumptionConsumerismIdolatryNatural ResourcesOverconsumptionToothpaste Book:Seeds Source: Seeds
“We line our lives with beautiful things to create a cushion of stability: the illusion of a cohesive past, the promise of an unclouded future.” PastBeautifulLinesOur LivesPromiseIllusionStabilityBeautiful ThingsCushions Author:Holland Cotter
“What we see on the TV screen, or the film screen or what we listen to in music, we have an illusion of what Prince Charming looks like or Cinderella's gonna look like in our life and we forget about what true love really means.” LooksMeanFilmForgetOur LivesTvsIllusionScreensCharmingReally Mean Author:Shari Wiedmann
“Life attacks us like a blind beast. It swallows up time, the years of our life, it passes like a typhoon and leaves nothing behind. Not even memory, because memory is made of the same swift, ungraspable substance out of which illusions emerge and then disappear.” YearsMadeMemoriesBehindsOur LivesIllusionBlindDisappearSubstanceBeastTyphoons Author:Álvaro Mutis
“A lot of times, our guides are at the same level that we are at spiritually. We are their jobs, and they are growing through our life experiences. People have this illusion that their guides are all-knowing and all-wise, and why would we need God if we have our guides?” PeopleIfsNeedsJobsLevelsKnowingWiseOur LivesGrowingIllusionGuidesLife ExperienceNeed God Author:Echo Bodine
“I think that in life, being is nothing but an illusion. If we acknowledge that and accept the fact that we are in between states, that we are moving, and this movement is the nature of our lives, and we stop having aspirations for being in a definite state, we know life better and are able to enjoy it better.” IfsThinkingKnowsStatesFactsAbleMovingEnjoyAcceptingOur LivesMovementIllusionAcknowledgeAspirationDefinite Author:Abbas Kiarostami