Quotes About Reality

Instead of expressing deep hurt, the wounded female lives a miserable existence and gripes and complains about everything. She becomes addicted to her misery because it allows her to forget about her anger, or at least postpone dealing with it. Her dependency on misery is just as difficult to break as someone else's dependency on crack cocaine. Both are means to a different reality that allows for pain to be deferred.

All problems are not results of sin; many are simply results of reality.

Outcasts can interpret reality for themselves. Even when their perception of reality contradicts that of hundreds or thousands of followers, they can clearly see the problems and press for solutions to those problems. Outcasts are unimpressed by position or personhood. They love God and want to protect his people and his institutions from spiritual fraud.

What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176)

The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself but in our distorted conceptions of the world.

Our conceptions of the world affect our perceptions of the world which, in turn, condition the way we subsequently conceive the world.

Ignorance is not merely a deficiency of knowledge but, in addition, it positively apprehends reality in a distinctive way. And being a distorted mode of conception, it creates a view of the world that is in opposition to, and in conflict with, the actual way the world is.

An ability to believe in things that weren't true was a powerful tool.

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.

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

It is a well known fact that reality has liberal bias.

on fox news).... it's like watching a Disney movie about the news.

You said in your book that at the end of the day, every politician is human. What about during the day?

In effect, then, Beethoven became a musical seer. Like the mystical rishis of ancient India, he perceived aspects of reality that were beyond the perceptual range of ordinary people. Very few of his contemporaries could understand the musical leaps he had made. And of course, not seeing the genius of his refined perception, his critics called him "mad.

They are asleep. This is the condition they prefer. They are afraid of the world and sleep is a way of dealing with their fear. Someday they will wake. Perhaps something frightful will happen. Indeed, there is no better invitation to the frightful than ignorance - that is, sleep. (29)

But everything's Horror, isn't it? Sometimes you just can't see the blood

Don't let anybody ever tell you life's fair. Not as long as I'm in it.

Moms are so oblivious. It's like they live in a bubble of wishful thinking.

To really live is to waver at the edge of an open-eyed dream, so that everybody's always jerking their head around, sure you're there. And

Moms are so oblivious. It's like they live in a bubble of wishful thinking.

Now you're the adult who doesn't believe this is really happening. And, what always happens to that adult? Do you still remember, or do you forget all the true things when you grow up, Peter Pan?

steering wheels aren't designed for monsters that aren't supposed to exist.

THE OBSERVER AND HIS OBSERVATION, AS WELL AS THE WORLD OBSERVED, APPEAR AND DISAPPEAR TOGETHER. BEYOND IT ALL, THERE IS VOID. THIS VOID IS ONE FOR ALL.

Those who have lost, as James Hillman put it, the response of the heart to what is presented to the senses, are sometimes so trained to believe that the objects outside them have no "feeling reality" to them that all feeling inflows of that sort are gated entirely.