Quotes About Reality

The autobiographer works in a treacherous terrain. The journalist has a much safer job.

I feel my advantage of coming from a film family is - having seen fame up close, having seen the industry so close and how it works, I was not enamored by fame.

One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality.

If you're struggling to make your mortgage payment, and you've got three kids between the ages of 12 and 18, and you and your spouse works, and someone says, 'Oh, by the way, the world's ending,' it's like, 'Please. You don't need to tell me that.'

I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.

When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.

While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.

I do atypical work for a white person, which is that I lead primarily white audiences in discussions on race every day, in workshops all over the country. That has allowed me to observe very predictable patterns. And one of those patterns is this inability to tolerate any kind of challenge to our racial reality.

If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.

The way we experience the world around us is a direct reflection of the world within us.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

Our feet are planted in the real world, but we dance with angels and ghosts.

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.