But the world is out there, and it understands that the illusion of knowledge and freedom is not the same as the real thing. Eventually it will fade, and there are those who will do whatever it takes to make that happen sooner rather than later.
Knowledge of anything but concrete things stems from an illusion.
Illusory knowledge is knowledge based on the belief that, 'I am Chandubhai' and real Knowledge is Knowledge based on the right belief of, 'I am pure Soul'. Therefore, it is worth understanding real Knowledge only. Â
Worldly knowledge (laukik gnan) is called illusion (bhranti).
Once you wake up to a better knitted reality, “life” becomes maya, an illusion.
Things aren’t brought to light because of the illusion of fear and we don’t want to shatter the illusion because we can go on living within multiple realities, where we can unfairly hold someone to an expectation they are unaware of.
If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord. . . . So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man’s illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.
Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.
Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
I like graceful and elegant partnering that gives an illusion of ease instead of emphasizing difficulty. I don't want to make something 'contemporary' or 'trendy,' because ballet doesn't progress on one track: it can branch out in many directions, and as Balanchine showed, there's always room for pure classicism and more subtle alterations of it.
I am under no illusion that amending the Voting Rights Act in Congress will be easy, but with bipartisan calls for legislation to address it, I'm confident we are moving in the right direction.
In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.
The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion.
Let's make a deal with the Serbs. Neither history nor emotion in the Balkans will permit multinationalism. We have to give up on the illusion of the last eight years... Dayton isn't working. Nobody - except diplomats and petty officials - believes in a sovereign Bosnia and the Dayton accords.
A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
