Meher Baba Quotes

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.

People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.

...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.

Illusion never changed into something real.

Reality doesn't interest me.

The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

I believe in illusion - I don't believe in magic.

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Reality has a way of intruding upon illusion.

Films are about lies. They're about making things look glamorous.

I like illusion when it is so convincing that we might as well see reality this way - I like to present to our belief system something that is convincing, that 'we know not to be.'

One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.

I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.

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.

Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?

The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.

Everything that I've ever done is not really based on reality, it's the caricature of reality, which is what's really exciting.

There are lots of imposters in this earth, and to very first there always comes a second, to every reality there always come a fantasy, and the fantasy wants to come and live the life of the reality