"Great Soul, the ignorant and simple-minded, not knowing that the world is only something seen of the mind itself, cling to the multitudinous-ness of external objects, cling to the notions of beings and non-being, oneness and otherness, both-ness and non-both-ness, existence and non-existence, eternity and non-eternity, and think that they have a self-nature of their own -- all of which rises from the discriminations of the mind and is perpetuated by habit-energy, and from which they are given over to false imagination. It is all like a mirage in which springs of water are seen as if they were real. They are imagined by [those] who, made thirsty by the heat of the season, run after them -- [those] who do not realize that the springs are merely hallucinations of their own minds.”

~Lankavatara Sutra