103 Quotes About Maya

What are the units of ontology really that I should be a part of a whole, but not be, in all my awareness, chiefly the whole unto itself?

The sacred stillness of your brilliant hearthas as the myriad wonders masqueraded.But if you knew this secret from the start,then you'd have quit this Game before you played it.

Illusion (maya) cannot enter where there is ‘light’ (enlightenment, awareness). Once darkness falls, illusion will enter there. The Gnani Purush can arrange for your illusion to go away permanently.

A few trees stand at a distance from each other. All have rough trunks. Each thinks that the other have smooth trunk because everything looks smooth from a distance. They all are chasing a smoothness that doesn't even exist. This is Maya.

The mind and its world exists only as long as we continue to be blinded by the sheen of its imagery. As long as we continue to use our intuition to piece together the glints of the sheen of the mind's activities, we create a world, and any thought, which comes into this net and manifests itself, participates in this net.

You are deluded if you think that the world around you is a physical construct separate from your own mind.

If you desire to drink water, the Space-Time (Maya) says, “Walk these many steps and reach the fridge. Take out the water bottle and drink.”By fulfilling these small desires without any trick, Maya proves that she is fair. When you try to fulfill bigger desires, she tricks you and traps you. Then you can’t even blame her because she has already proved herself as fair. Then you blame yourself and fall deeper into the mess.

Nicole crumpled—just let her legs give way and fell to the floor, hunched and sobbing. Hayley looked at me. Even Rafe did. Uncertain looks from both of them. I had to admit, Nicole was a good actor. If I hadn't seen her switch from "sweet Nicole" to "raving lunatic Nicole" in a heartbeat at the campsite, I might have believed her myself.

Right beneath this shimmering...beneath this glittering surface of water liesa distorted view of the world above.