Quotes About Reality

Gossip sometimes becomes a reality for some.

How can we think we're so important the world reacts to our whims or decisions or mistakes?

She couldn't face what was really happening. Routine brought comfort.

It was that she knew that in a very real way the situation was hopeless.

I saw her as she showed herself to the world: fun, smart, sexy. Funny how those things are often a smoke screen from one's true self. It's easy to act all those things. Up for adventure. Head nods at complex scenarios when she's not really listening. Ready for bedroom play even when there is no bedroom. In the beginning, Sophie was all those things. I didn't know they were a construct. I thought they were key parts of who she was.

In the physical disciplines of yoga, samadhi is reached by suspending the extremes of solar (pingala) and lunar (ida) mind. This state arises when the inner breath (prana) enters the central channel (sushumna). Then truth or deep reality suddenly flashes forth. Why

To live thoughtfully with Christlike love we must allow ourselves to be disturbed by the grotesque realities surrounding us and sympathetically enter into the nightmarish suffering of others.

In a community that gets life based on appearances, problems tend to be diagnosed in terms of how things appear.

Open Theists unequivocally affirm that God is omniscient—that is, God perfectly knows everything there is to know! The disagreement is not about the scope or perfection of God's knowledge but rather about the content of reality that God perfectly knows. Open Theists simply believe that possibilities are real and that God knows them as such. Some

The flesh is not a nature that is essential to someone's identity. It is rather a deceptive way of seeing and experiencing oneself and one's world and thus a deceptive way of living in the world.

They are descriptions of what real life looks like, not prescriptions for how to get life.

The dependability of the world which makes it possible for rational, morally responsible creatures to live works against us in certain circumstances.

The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.

When we think of coconuts or pigs, there are no coconuts or pigs in the brain.

He had grown up believing that the universe was hostile to people and in a way that made them important. They were locked in a grand struggle with a great enemy. The truth was a lot worse. The universe did not care at all.

To expect the world to treat you fairly because you're a good person, my new friend, is like expecting a bull not to charge you because you are a vegetarian.

To expect the world to treat you fairly because you're a good person, my friend, is like expecting a bull not to charge you because you are a vegetarian.

You could say whatever you liked to them and they would not take you seriously, not even take offense—as long as you told the strict truth. They never recognized it.

Visible light was a mere one octave on a keyboard fifteen meters wide—humanity's slice of reality.

Military history is the story of the terrible murder of beautiful plans by ugly facts.

Were they—were all of them, Alice too?—so sophisticated, so counterfeit in their emotions, that they operated one or two steps removed from the substance of things?

I don't want to base my life on a symbol, he said resolutely. I want reality, and the Christian faith has always been rooted in reality. What's not rooted in reality is the faith of liberal scholars. They're the ones who are following a pipe dream, but Christianity is not a pipe dream.

Oh, of course, naturally, God is impossible. That is the first proof that he exists. Nothing exists as we see it. Nothing we see is really there, as we think we are seeing it. Our eyes are liars. Everything that seems real, is merely part of the illusion.

It's a fact of life on the run that you often love more people than you trust.