( * ( * ( * Reality Is An Illusion * ) * ) * )

The surface holds only illusions. Search deeper for the truth.
--Unknown

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

Thoth : "As above so below; as below so above; As within so without; as without so within; As in great so in small; as in small so in great."

"The narratives of the Doctrine are its cloak. The simple look only at the garment — that is, upon the narrative of the Doctrine; more they know not. The instructed, however, see not merely the cloak, but what the cloak covers."

The Emerald Tablets of Thoth : "Man is in the process of changing, to forms that are not of this world; grows he in time to the formless, a plane on the cycle above. Know ye, ye must become formless before ye are one with the light."

Akhenaton: "True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance."

J.C.: "If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you."

Sufism: "Be in this world as if you are a traveller, a passer-by, with your clothes and shoes full of dust. Sometimes you sit under the shade of a tree, sometimes you walk in the desert. Be always a passer-by, for this is not home."

Bhagavad Gita : "Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear; trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity."

Aristotle: "I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."

Carl Jung: "A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them."

Aldous Huxley: "The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."

Shakyamuni: In a controversy, the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

James Allen: Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Mark Twain: "Don't let your education get in the way of your learning"

Oscar Wilde: "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

Joseph Campbell: "The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek."

Oscar Wilde: "Be yourself. Everyone else is taken."

Bhagavad Gita: "Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire."

Paramahansa Yogananada: Man has falsely identified himself with his pseudo-soul or ego. When he transfers his sense of identity to his true being, the immortal Soul, he discovers that all pain is unreal.

Ernest Holmes: "There is a POWER in the universe greater than you are, and you can use it."

J.C.: "The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light."

Aldous Huxley:"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception."

Plato: "Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may"

Plato: " Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night."

Ralph Waldo Emerson: "We are a stream whose source is hidden. Always our being is descending into us from we know not whence."

Albert Einstein: "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."

Aldous Huxley: "Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."

*****(Welcome to the Empire of Illusion, the end of Literacy and the Triumph of spectacle!!!)

Nunquam Dormio..........Andre Gide: "It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."