All Blog Posts Tagged 'illusion' (9)

Not many years ago scientists started observing that the results of an experiment were affected by the observer; they found that the same experiment conducted by different people produced slightly different results. To the non-scientist mystic this is to be expected because of their awareness of the reality that the subject of the experiment is an illusion [as is…

So much poetry and song lyrics are created by the emotion of love yet it is an illusion too! Albeit an illusion which, like time - another illusion - serves a purpose in this plane, a means of expressing the inexpressible essence of the "God within".…

If the ways of the world torment your mind try to understand this, which I repeat. To understand this is not easy but it may help:

The thought is the reality, the act only an illusion.*

Hence, what one perceives to be happening is not happening although people are thinking it.…

If we dream about something in the future, that something must exist now, correct?

If that something in the future exists now the future must exist now, correct?

Therefore, now and the future co-exist, correct?

Therefore, since the same also…

If we are shown a green leaf and asked what its colour is, we will reply that it is green. However, it is not green. It only appears to be green because it absorbs all but that part of the light spectrum that makes green, and that is the part that is reflected to our eyes. A beautiful butterfly wing is not beautiful at all; it only looks that way because the…

Far superior to the pleasures and rewards of the illusion that is Earthly life
are the pleasure and rewards of the Reality.

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Civilization is not necessary for the spiritual progress of the individual.

However, it does provide the opportunity to learn that the empty pleasures

and apparent benefits that civilization brings are actually worthless - mere

illusion - and the opportunity to eliminate the desire for (the attachment to)

these. The only progress that matters in the long run…

   First Posted by Michael Grove @zaadz on March 5, 2007 at…