Quotes About Reality

All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.

The reality is more excellent than the report.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

All promise outruns performance.

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members…. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

'Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.

Things are of the snake.

This world we live in is but thickened light.

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

If the red slayer think he slays,Or if the slain think he is slain,They know not well the subtle waysI keep, and pass, and turn again.

Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate.

The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

What you see is what it is!

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be, you can't see how it is.

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

The world is not outside you.

There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.

There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.

There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.

Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge. But some of these rules and discipline are good for beginners.