illusion

A well painted facade seldom scares a resident cockroach.

What are the units of ontology really that I should be a part of a whole, but not be, in all my awareness, chiefly the whole unto itself?

Throughout our history human beings have conducted and practiced all kinds of rituals and activities with the motivation of obtaining peace. We have fought wars in the name of achieving peace because we are under the illusion that peace is something external, something to be obtained.

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

if all of life were an illusion then the instruments science would use to measure reality could not be depended upon.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

The illusion is time itself.

Time is, indeed, a strange and wondrous thing. It has no beginning or end, it seems. Time goes on, forward and backward, this way and that. But perspective is an illusion, for we know all things begin somewhere.

Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present.

Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.

Time is but an illusion created by beings with limited perception.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

But love...it's only an illusion. A story one makes up in one's mind about another person. And one knows all the time it isn't true. Of course one knows why one's always taking care not to destroy the illusion.

To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.

Worldly knowledge (laukik gnan) is called illusion (bhranti).

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.

Knowledge kills action action requires the veils of illusion.