"Another illusion is that we are awake. When we realize that we are asleep we will see that all history is made by people who are asleep. Sleeping people fight, make laws; sleeping people obey or disobey them."
- P. D. Ouspensky

"Wake up, Neo."
- Morpheus

"I dreamt that I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?"
- Chuang Tsu

"The best mind-altering drug is truth."
- Lily Tomlin

"When the iron bird flies, and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people will be scattered like ants across the World, and the Dharma will come to the land of red-faced people."
- Padma Sambhave (8th century)

"It is all an open secret."
- Ramana Maharshi

"The secret waits for eyes unclouded by longing."
- Tao Teh King

"Don't think; just look."
-Wittgenstein

"You can see a lot just by looking."
-Yogi Berra

"What is the use of looking outside? All you will see is objects! Turn round and look within.
 Shall I then see subject instead?
 If you did you would be looking at an object. An object is such in whatever direction you look.
 Shall I not see myself?
 You cannot see what is not there!
 What, then, shall I see?
  Perhaps you may see the absence of yourself, which is what is looking. It has been called 'the void.'"
- Wei Wu Wei

"Is what is impermanent, suffering, and subject to change fit to be regarded thus: 'This is mine. this I am, this is my self?' [...] Therefore, monks, any kind of form whatsoever, whether past, future, or present, internal or external, gross or subtle, inferior or superior, far or near, all form should be seen as it really is with correct wisdom thus: 'This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self.'"
- Shakyamuni Buddha

"The truth is that in this world of ours, there is nothing that does anything to anybody. There is nothing to be anxious about. There's nothing worth crying over, nothing to laugh at. Nothing is inherently tragic or delightful. But such is what's ordinary for people."
- Ajahn Chah

"We practice illusory practice in an illusory way, in order to reach illusory enlightenment and deliver all illusory beings from illusory suffering."
- Khyungpo Naliyor

"The first-person 'I' is totally my own life experience; it is separate from everyone else's. It is from this viewpoint that my teacher Sawaki Roshi pointed out that there is no way I can share even as much as a fart with another person. And yet, everyone living out their life as they experience it, as wholly theirs, is simultaneously the eternal, or universal aspect of self. The self is not universal in an abstract sense; it is so in a most concrete way. There is nothing abstract about all human beings living out one and the same fresh, original life force. There can't be anything more concrete than that."
- Kosho Uchiyama

"We live in illusion
 And the appearance of things.
 There is a reality.
 We are that reality.
 When you understand this,
 You see that you are nothing.
 And being nothing,
 You are everything.
 That is all."
- Kalu Rinpoche

"What am I doing at a level of consciousness where this is real?"
- Thaddeus Golas

"Think of all sentient beings as buddha, but keep your hand on your wallet."
- Tibetan saying