The most important enemy for everyone is their own illusion that makes them unrealistic or exaggerates their sense of self-importance in the world. Ironically, you're the super secret enemy. Whether lay or householder, everyone has that internal enemy.
Barack Obama has done more than anyone else to promote the dangerous illusion that we can choose whether to have a war or not. But our enemies have already made that choice. Retired Marine Corps General James Mattis said: “No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it's over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote“.
The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.
illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.
Technology is seductive when what it offers meets our human vulnerabilities. And as it turns out, we are very vulnerable indeed. We are lonely but fearful of intimacy. Digital connections and the sociable robot may offer the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship. Our networked life allows us to hide from each other, even as we are tethered to each other. We’d rather text than talk.
Because you can't keep up the illusion forever," I say. "No one has that much magic.
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.
This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.
Realize all this as illusion, realize that within the illusion is the Real.
Art is a never-ending dance of illusions.
We can start accessing a new way of being, a freedom of our spirit, and we can align more to that sacredness. When we hold on to the illusion, we cannot really perceive ourselves within that sacredness.
Feel not as though it is a sphere we live on. Rather, an infinite plane which has the illusion of leading yourself back to the point of origin.
The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.
If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be 'Grand Illusion. '
It's only when you become love - in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments - that you will "know. " As you identify less and less with the "me," you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything.
Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.
My last kids were born when I was in my forties, so I still had little kids around me, which gave me the illusion of feeling younger.
There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.
I’ve learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the present and onto the future.
To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.