“The notion that all these fragments are separately existent is evidently an illusion, and this illusion cannot do other than lead to endless conflict and confusion.”

“The Buddhist doctrine of impermanence includes the notion that there is no self… It holds that the idea of a separate, individual self is an illusion, just another form of maya, an intellectual concept that has no reality. To cling to this idea of a separate self leads to the same pain and suffering (duhkha) as the adherence to any other fixed category of thought.”

“Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.”

“Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.”

“Let there be no illusions. The Communion is broken and fragmented. The Communion will break.”

“Descartes may have made a lot of mistakes, but he was right about this: you cannot doubt the existence of your own consciousness. That's the first feature of consciousness, it's real and irreducible. You cannot get rid of it by showing that it's an illusion in a way that you can with other standard illusions.”

“We're here to awaken from the illusion of separateness”

“The disparagement of empirical evidence in favor of a metaphysical world of illusion has its origin in the conflict between the emancipated individual of bourgeois society and his fate within that society.”

“We cannot be rid of illusions. Illusion is our natural condition. Why not accept it?”

“We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.”