Everything is an illusion; that is the whole thing about it - illusion, immitation, a mirage. It makes me too sad. Its having like a good dream, you know you are going to wake up.
Love does not last forever, then?" "He asked me the same thing this morning," she said. "No, it does not - not love that has been betrayed. One realizes that one has loved a mirage, someone who never really existed. Not that love dies immediately or soon, even then. But it does die and cannot be revived.
The political mirage of something for nothing, from leaders who 'care,' has ruined many a nation.
But if you don’t take the necessary steps to make them happen, dreams are just mirages that mess with your head!
I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.
I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive.
Spirit vibrated into matter; hence, both Spirit and matter exist. Matter, however, does not exist in the way that it appears to us. It exists as we see it owing to the delusive force of maya, which makes the indivisible Spirit seem finite and divisible to all appearances. Matter has existence in the same delusive way as does a mirage in the desert.
Hollywood is a mirage factory ...
In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.