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“Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete.”

Inspirational Buddhism Perception Illusion Illusory

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Consciousness is the screen. The images on the screen are your perceptions, the illusion that life is solid, that there is a material universe.”

Life Is Universe Consciousness Materials Perception Illusion Yoga Screens

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Humility does not live in the prison of illusion that says that this world is a dark and terrible place. Those perceptions are phantoms; everything is eternity, God, divine.”

World Doe Dark This World Humility Divine Buddhism Terrible Perception Illusion Eternity Prison Phantoms

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The theories determine what we can or cannot observe...Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one.”

Reality Remember Theory Perception Illusion Method Determine Insight Exposed Persistent

Author:Albert Einstein

“There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of idle thoughts. What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought we have either contributes to truth or to illusion.”

World Giving Self Whole Perception Illusion Concepts Whole World Idle Contradictory

Author:Gautama Buddha

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

“What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be.”

“Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .”

World Life Ends Dream Happiness Life Is Perspective Prove Perception Illusion Train Paint Mood Strings Lenses Life Is Like Hue Beads

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.”

Sometimes Perception Illusion Errors Prey Optical Illusions

Book:Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.”

Color Perception Illusion

Author:Josef Albers

“There are sacred moments in life when we experience in rational and very direct ways that separation, the boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality. We can experience that stasis is illusory and that reality is continual flux and change on very subtle and also on gross levels of perception . . . When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing.”

“The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove that there must be any specific existence behind such a concept. We are succumbing to illusions produced by our self-created language, without reaching a better understanding of anything. Most of so-called philosophy is due to this kind of fallacy.”

Source: Einstein's God: Albert Einstein's Quest as a Scientist and as a Jew to Replace a Forsaken God

“Oh my God. Lift me up out of this illusion, Lord. Heal my perception that I might know only reality and only you.”

Knows Reality Might Lord Perception Illusion Heal Lifts Lift Me Up

Author:Bill Hicks

“From experience, I came to learn that ayahuasca bestows upon the user knowledge about a variety of topics, not only consciousness and perception, but also leads one to realize that what we perceive is an illusion.”

Realizing Consciousness Perception Illusion Variety Perceive Users Topics Ayahuasca

Author:Pablo Amaringo

“We're left with so little to go on. Only the present is full enough to seem complete, and even that is an optical illusion. The moment is bleeding off the page. We live on the precipice of our perceptions. At the edge of every living instant, the world shears away like a cliff of ice into the sea of what is forgotten.”

World Littles Enough Moments Seems Left Sea Goes On Perception Pages Illusion Forgotten Edges Ice Instant Cliffs Bleeding Precipice Shears Optical Illusions

Author:Ivan Vladislavic