Quotes on the illusion of life

"I saw the angel in the marble and I just chiseled 'til I set him free."
Michelangelo

"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."
Richard Bach, From Illusions

"When the soul wishes to experience something, she simply throws out an image, and enters into it."
Meister Eckhart

Any more, anyone? Wink

Trinity Bourne's picture

It's all an illusion...

    Know that this universe is nothing but a dream bluff of nature to test your consciousness of immortality.

    Paramahansa Yogananda

Reality according to Einstein

"Reality is merely an illusion,
albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

what if?

“What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet"

Woody Allen

Crossroads of illusion

You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

Richard Bach, Illusions

Dan Patrick's picture

Who am I?

"Ask yourself: "Who am I?" Invariably the internal answer will be autobiographical - an identity based on the past. It will be a description of a continuity from childhood through adolescence to adulthood which is all past memories and no longer exists. Memory is the mirror and we live on the wrong side. Seldom will anyone answer the question of "Who am I?" with: "I appear to be the process of reading this page."
- Yatri
Unknown Man