Quotes About Reality

Thinking is something and then feeling it are two different reference points for most human beings: If I think it and I feel it, then it is real. But it does not take much reflection to acknowledge we have all thought and felt things to be true that later found out were not.

This adult world has an insane quality to it. Everybody's going around pretending like they really know things, pretending like they know what's real and what's not, pretending they know what's right, pretending they know who's wrong, but actually nobody really knows. But this is something we're afraid of. We don't really want to admit that nobody really knows.

It's as if you wake up from the dream of thinking that you're already awake in your ordinary waking state. When you are spiritually awakened, what you thought was an awake state now seems like a dream.

myth carries is not fact, not history, but truth—the ultimate reality. The Jesus story carries this ultimate reality, and that's why, two thousand years later, it remains so compelling.

Otherwise spirituality and our daily life become two separate things. That's the primary illusion -- that there is something called "my spiritual life," and something called "my daily life." When we wake up to reality, we find they are all one thing. It's all one seamless expression of spirit.

The Gospel of Thomas presents the Kingdom of Heaven as something that exists right here and right now. In fact, it's all about what's right here and right now. In it, we find Jesus saying, "The Kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it.

For simple are the words of truth.

The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

In war, the first casualty is truth.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Appearances are often deceiving.

Do not count your chickens before they are .

Appearances often are deceiving.

Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.

Appearances are deceptive.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

In the midst of life, we are in death.

At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else." "Oh! my dear Love, I know. You want reality. So do I. What's between us will last for ever because it's founded on reality.

Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if you read in the paper that by injecting certain glands scientists can alter your vital tissues and you'll develop froglike characteristics, well, everybody would believe that.

The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.

Death was for-the other people.