"People who have realized that this is a dream imagine that it is easy to wake up, and are angry with those who continue sleeping, not considering that the whole world that environs them does not permit them to wake. Life proceeds as a series of optical illusions, artificial needs and imaginary sensations."

Herzen, Alexander | Illusion | 3 bookmarks

"What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?"

Erasmus, Desiderius | Illusion | 0 bookmarks

"Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people."

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt | Illusion | 3 bookmarks

"The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action."

Wilde, Oscar | Illusion | 6 bookmarks

"It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet."

Twain, Mark | Illusion | 0 bookmarks

"The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there."

Roshi, Yasutani | Illusion | 1 bookmarks

"For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities --a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces --a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life."

Eliot, George | Illusion | 2 bookmarks

"A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it."

Russell, Bertrand | Illusion | 3 bookmarks

"A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality."

Bovee, Christian Nevell | Illusion | 4 bookmarks

"It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel."

Keats, John | Illusion | 1 bookmarks

"Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life, than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith."

Overstreet, Harry A. | Illusion | 0 bookmarks

"We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks."

Phillpotts, Eden | Illusion | 1 bookmarks

"Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion."

Shaughnessy, Susan | Illusion | 1 bookmarks

"The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life."

Freud, Sigmund | Illusion | 1 bookmarks

"Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion."

Koestler, Arthur | Illusion | 6 bookmarks

"Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills."

Cervantes, Miguel De | Illusion | 1 bookmarks

"It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull."

Conrad, Joseph | Illusion | 3 bookmarks

"Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | Illusion | 2 bookmarks

"We must select the Illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy."

Connolly, Cyril | Illusion | 1 bookmarks

"Oh, how powerfully the magnet of illusion attracts."

Gutzkow | Illusion | 2 bookmarks

"As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within."

Bhagavad Gita | Self discovery | 3 bookmarks

"When the senses contact sense objects, a person experiences cold or heat, pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting they come and go. Bear them patiently."

Bhagavad Gita | Feelings | 3 bookmarks

"Valor, glory, firmness, skill, generosity, steadiness in battle and ability to rule -- these constitute the duty of a soldier. They flow from his own nature."

Bhagavad Gita | Army and Navy | 3 bookmarks

"A man's own self is his friend. A man's own self is his foe."

Bhagavad Gita | Conflict | 6 bookmarks

"Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service."

Bhagavad Gita | Service | 4 bookmarks

"On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear."

Bhagavad Gita | Failure | 4 bookmarks

"Sages speak of the immutable Tree of Life, with its tape root above and its branches below."

Bhagavad Gita | Spirit and Spirituality | 3 bookmarks

"Those who consciousness is unified abandon all attachment to the results of action and attain supreme peace. But those whose desires are fragmented, who are selfishly attached to the results of their work, are bound in everything they do."

Bhagavad Gita | Attachment | 4 bookmarks

"Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart."

Bhagavad Gita | Meditation | 5 bookmarks

"Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in store for him who always doubts."

Bhagavad Gita | Doubt | 5 bookmarks

"Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation."

Bhagavad Gita | Meditation | 5 bookmarks

"Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives."

Bhagavad Gita | Compassion | 4 bookmarks

"The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?"

Bhagavad Gita | Mind | 2 bookmarks

"For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace."

Bhagavad Gita | Peace of Mind | 2 bookmarks

"Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never;Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams!Birthless and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit for ever;Death hath not touched it at all, dead though the house of it seems!Who knoweth it exhaustless, self-sustained,Immortal, indestructible,shall suchSay, I have killed a man, or caused to kill?Nay, but as when one layethHis worn-out robes away,And, taking new ones, sayeth,These will I wear to-day!So putteth by the spiritLightly its garb of flesh,And passeth to inheritA residence afresh. "

Bhagavad Gita | Uncategorised | 2 bookmarks

"Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace."

Bhagavad Gita | Knowledge | 7 bookmarks

"Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed."

Bhagavad Gita | Reality | 7 bookmarks

"O Krishna, the stillness of divine union which you describe is beyond my comprehension. How can the mind, which is so restless, attain lasting peace? Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, powerful, violent; trying to control it is like trying to tame the wind."

Bhagavad Gita | Spirit and Spirituality | 3 bookmarks

"When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self."

Bhagavad Gita | Wisdom | 2 bookmarks

"It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger."

Bhagavad Gita | Danger | 3 bookmarks

"Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom."

Krishnamurti, Jiddu | Freedom | 63 bookmarks

"How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours."

Dyer, Wayne | Writers and Writing | 6 bookmarks

"That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great."

Cather, Willa | Happiness | 4 bookmarks

"It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship."

Proust, Marcel | Bed | 1 bookmarks

"The only journey is the one within."

Rilke, Rainer Maria | Success | 8 bookmarks

"Love is not love until love's vulnerable."

Roethke, Theodore | Love | 62 bookmarks

"Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire."

Marden, Orison Swett | Destiny | 1 bookmarks

"What makes life dreary is the want of a motive."

Eliot, George | Purpose | 2 bookmarks

"Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!"

Nietzsche, Friedrich | Punishment | 4 bookmarks

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice."

Dyer, Wayne | Choice | 4 bookmarks

"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us -- never cease to instruct -- never cloy."

Colton, Charles Caleb | Books - Reading | 13 bookmarks

"Nature never did betray the heart that loved her."

Wordsworth, William | Nature | 4 bookmarks

"And Silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell | Silence | 1 bookmarks

"We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving"

Meltzer, Bernard | Giving | 19 bookmarks

"Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life."

Kennedy, John F. | Expectation | 4 bookmarks

"Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart."

Unknown, Source | Heart | 6 bookmarks

"Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life."

Greer, Germaine | Security | 3 bookmarks

"Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys."

Proverb, Jewish | Trust | 7 bookmarks

"The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives."

Robbins, Anthony | Communication | 2 bookmarks

"Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life."

Shan, Merle | Love | 34 bookmarks