“If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire Canon becomes so much prose. It's thousands of sutras and shastras only amount to a clear mind. Understanding comes in midsentence. What good are doctrines? The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. The Way is wordless. Words are illusions. . . . Don't cling to appearances, and you'll break through all barriers. . . .” IfsKnowsWayMindTruthUnderstandingBreakClearAmountTruth IsIllusionUltimateAppearanceDoctrineProseBarriersBreak ThroughCanonUltimate TruthClear Minds Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“Religion's biggest crime is to slow down the Human's Intellectual Evolution! It creates an illusion as if there is a safe port somewhere. The truth is that there is no safe port; man is in emptiness! Intellectual Evolution is our only chance to build a safe port by ourselves!” IfsMenHumansChanceCrimeEvolutionTruth IsSafeIntellectualIllusionEmptinessSlow DownPort Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“We suffer from the illusion that the faster we run, the more likely we are to grasp happiness. The truth is that the velocity necessary for success rarely exceeds the rate of reflection.” RunningSufferingTruth IsIllusionReflectionRateFasterExceedVelocity Author:Sam Keen
“Beneath all the rhetoric about relevance lies a profoundly disturbing possibility - that people may base their lives upon an illusion, upon a blatant lie. The attractiveness of a belief is all too often inversely proportional to its truth... To allow "relevance" to be given greater weight than truth is a mark of intellectual shallowness and moral irresponsibility.” PeopleMayLyingBeliefGivenMoralGreaterPossibilityTruth IsIntellectualIllusionWeightMarkRhetoricDisturbingRelevanceAttractivenessIrresponsibilityShallownessBlatant Lies Author:Alister E. McGrath
“Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion.” Truth IsIllusionForgotten Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“It's a very important process of self-recognition, self-introspection, by just daily accepting our creation, accepting what is right in front of us, breathing, letting go, and coming into the heart space and knowing that that fear or the struggle is part of the illusion. Just breathe that truth, because as you breathe, it filters through and you'll find that that tightness, that intensity, the fear, the worry, will dissolve. Just allow yourself not to get stuck in that.” HeartImportantSelfProcessSpaceAcceptingWorryStruggleKnowingFrontsCreationTruth IsLetting GoIllusionBreatheStuckRecognitionBreathingIntensityIntrospectionFiltersSelf RecognitionAccepting What Is Author:Christine McCormick Day
“You’ll join me sooner than you know in a place with . . . no illusions, where the truth is the only architecture, the only color, the only sound--where that which we sense merely on occasion, and which takes us up and gives us the rare and beautiful glimpses of the things we truly love, flows in deep rivers and tumbles about like clouds in the sky.” KnowsGivingBeautifulSoundSkyColorTruth IsIllusionFlowRiversCloudsArchitectureOccasionsGlimpse Author:Mark Helprin