Quotes About Reality

actors today think that being true is being nice, or being some other set thing. That is not the truth. That is your miserable habit of boring everybody to death.

Our most powerful visions of traditional families derive from images that are still delivered to our homes in countless reruns of 1950s television sitcoms.

Her eyes are the first indication of her infirmity, or rather that she resides in more than one world. (Dementia)

A cultura ocidental já não tem qualquer mitologia viável para sustentá-la. Em qualquer cultura, o mito sempre atua com uma realidade maior, mais universal. As pessoas sempre tiveram necessidade de um modelo para servir de guia äs suas vidas coletivas e para dar significado à sua experiência individual.

A person who is asleep is either lost in deep unconsciousness or absorbed in a dream. Metaphorically, this was how the Buddha must have seen both his previous self as well as everyone else he had known: they either were blind to the questions of existence or sought consolation from them in metaphysical or religious fantasies.

We perceive the world in a particular way and confidently expect it to conform to its appearance. But we fail to recognize that certain aspects of the 'reality' that appear to us are nothing but figments of our own imagination. In this confusion a conflict ensues between the world as it is and the world as we believe it to be. And the more we insist on our infallibility, the more frustrated we become as the actual world again and again stubbornly refuses to live up to our expectations.

No matter how hard I tried, I was incapable of giving more importance to a hypothetical, post-mortem existence than to this very life here and now. Moreover, the Buddhist teachings and practices that had the most impact upon me did so precisely because they heightened my sense of being fully alive in and responsive to this world.

I am empty only in the sense that there is nothing fixed or intrinsically real at the core of my identity as a person. Recognition of such emptiness therefore liberates one to change and transform oneself. And this, it seems, is precisely what the Jungian theory of individuation describes, yet in a language that is affirmative rather than negative.

Were mind and matter me, I would come and go like them. If I were something else, They would say nothing about me. —N?G?RJUNA, M?lamadhyamaka-k

The Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo makes a similar point to Rorty: "We don't reach agreement when we have discovered the truth," he observes; "we say we have discovered the truth when we reach agreement.

One needs to be more vitally conscious of what is happening now. This is not to deny the reality of past and future. It is about embarking on a new relationship with the impermanence and temporality of life. Instead of hankering after the past and speculating about the future, one sees the present as the fruit of what has been and the germ of what will be.

This is what I have learned, Malenfant. This is how it is, how it was, how it came to be.

If I don't speak the name of this thing, it still feels like it isn't real. Does that make any sense?' The ColU spoke to them now, whispering in their earphones. 'It makes plenty of sense, Mardina Eden Jones Guthfrithson. The power of names: probably one of the oldest human superstitions, going back to the birth of language itself. To deny a name is to deny a thing reality. And yet now it is time to name names.

She was certainly schizophrenic. Perhaps she was no longer sane.

As an engineer, he knew that a bucket-load of philosophical principles wasn't worth a grain of good hard fact.

And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.

It's kind of like when you look at yourself in the mirror and you say your name. And it gets to a point where none of it seems real. Well, sometimes I can do that, but I don't need an hour in front of a mirror. It just happens very fast, and things start to slip away. And I just open my eyes, and I see nothing. And then I start to breathe really hard trying to see something, but I can't. It doesn't happen all the time, but when it does, it scares me.

To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything.

Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there.

When to stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

I'm trying not to think about it too much because that makes it worse. It's kind of like when you look at yourself in the mirror and you say your name. And it gets to a point where none of it seems real. I can do that, but I don't need an hour in front of a mirror. It happens very fast, and things start to slip away.

There are other people who have it a lot worse

Some people's fake is more honest than other people's real.

It's kind of like when you look at yourself in the mirror and you say your name. And it gets to a point where none of it seems real.