illusion

Name and form are simply illusions of separation. Love doesn__ make us blind; rather, it erases the illusions so we can see clearly.

You know what an illusion is? On this planet, one small cloud has the ability to block the entire sun.

Who gives you pain? Your anger, pride, illusion and greed. Where is the fault of the nature in all this?

Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves _ and other animals.

He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been granted the secret of motion, his death-world with its hidden gift of life. But that life was a deeply ambiguous life, a conjurer's trick, a crafty illusion based on an accidental property of the retina, which retained an image for a fraction of a second after the image was no longer present. On this frail fact was erected the entire structure of the cinema, that colossal confidence game. The animated cartoon was a far more honest expression of the cinematic illusion than the so-called realistic film, because the cartoon reveled in its own illusory nature, exulted in the impossible--indeed it claimed the impossible as its own, exalted it as its own highest end, found in impossibility, in the negation of the actual, its profoundest reason for being. The animated cartoon was nothing but the poetry of the impossible--therein lay its exhilaration and its secret melancholy. For this willful violation of the actual, while it was an intoxicating release from the constriction of things, was at the same time nothing but a delusion, an attempt to outwit mortality. As such it was doomed to failure. And yet it was desperately important to smash through the constriction of the actual, to unhinge the universe and let the impossible stream in, because otherwise--well, otherwise the world was nothing but an editorial cartoon.

As some people turned to religion for comfort, so, Highsmith wrote in her notebook in September 1970, she took refuge in her belief that she was making progress as a writer. But she realised that both systems of survival were, however, fundamentally illusory. She wrote, she said, quoting Oscar Wilde because, 'Work never seems to me a reality, but a way of getting rid of reality'.

[On Schopenhauer in Black and White] Schopenhauer's views of love are flawed. Love can't be merely an illusion of the mind to aid in procreation, but the path to redemption for an otherwise violently selfish species. Past human greatness has proven that when challenged, love can overpower impulsive instinct, and in essence, the vilest aspects of our nature.

we are here confronted with an irreducible oddity about all human societies: all are strung around figments of the human imagination.

Just when you think you know.....you don't know.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

To lose awareness of what is helpful or harmful in the worldly life is moh (Illusory vision & attachment).

When people of different religions or countries harm people as a means to create peace, it__ out of the compulsion to make all colors the same. This is also why people think that war is a logical avenue towards creating peace. People who do not have or know inner peace perpetuate these shards of illusions. Thus, they are projecting their fragmented concepts of peace out onto the world.

One does not see __hat is there_ and sees __hat is not there_, that is called moha (illusory vision).

When faced with contrast, take nothing personally and don__ try to defend yourself. Defending one__ self is a vibrational relative of guilt. People will think what they like; do not feed fuel to the fire by reacting. Simply ask questions for clarity and in response say __s that so?_ Take responsibility for the energy you brought to the situation, acknowledge the illusions without attachment, and move forward. Other people__ opinions are none of your business. Remember that each person is on their own unique path, and the mirror of contrast you hold up to them may be exactly what is necessary for their conscious growth at that time.

No one is a doer in this world. To claim, __ am doing_ is egoism. Illusion continues to prevail under the umbrella of egoism.

Religion stops the loot of illusion; and through non-religion, the loot of illusion begins.

True happiness is devoid of any illusion.

To say ___ where I_ is not - is the greatest illusory attachment (raag).