Dalai Lama Quotes

Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.

Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

Reality is modest, it won't be seen naked.

The world isn't what you think it is.

...dreams were dreams and reality was reality and she felt people were better off understanding the difference.

Don't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.

Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

Truth is always a delusion.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

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.'

Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.

You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.

I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we "see" may be different than what is actually in front of us.

Reason is the illusion of reality

The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

The world consists of images on a screen, and consciousness is the steady light that emanates from the projector.

The dead see what they believe they will see. So do the living. That is the secret.

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.