Quotes About Reality

Dreams are a reservoir of knowledge and experience yet they are often overlooked as a vehicle for exploring reality. In the dream state our bodies are at rest, yet we see and hear, move about and are even able to learn. When we make good use of the dream state it is almost as if our lives were doubled: instead of a hundred years we live to be two hundred -- Tibetan Buddhist Tarthang Tulku from

dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life?

Be aware that the expectation of possible awakening sometimes leads to a false awakening in which you dream of waking.

sometimes while dreaming, we consciously notice that we are dreaming. This clear-sighted state of consciousness is referred to as lucid dreaming.

We can carry not only knowledge but also moods from the lucid dream state to the waking state.

God is not someone or something separate but is the suchness in each moment, the underlying reality.

Think about science fiction movies with lots of special effects: If you notice that special effects are special effects, they will fail.

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

Bill Gates's story was never rags to riches, a Harvard friend once remarked, but riches to riches—though the initial affluence, embellished to include such fictions as a million-dollar trust fund, was now utterly insignificant.

Work is a shit way to spend your time and everyone knows it.

The change of language is a change in reality.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

We didn't make the world. All we have to do is live in it.

Belief is the sense organ of faith, as your eyes are the sense organ of sight. With sight you see the world, with faith you see God. Belief has the power to shape reality.

I began to sense a momentous glory radiating from every form that met my eye- every limb and leaf, every blade of grass ablaze with the unutterable grandeur and majesty. And it seemed to me that the world I saw before me was merely an outward manifestation of a vastly powerful, deeply fundamental reality that existed just out of sight. I might not discern this veiled reality directly, but I could perceive its effects.

Because all the things you did not do cannot exist for you. Only the path that you chose exists as reality for you.

Truth, they say, is a cold and bitter draught; few drink it undiluted.

shape our reality through the exercise of intention, through the application of our free will as conscious beings.

How can you see a real forest if you have never seen a fairy forest?

To dream by night is to escape your life. To dream by day is to make it happen.

Reality is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about.

Our way of thinking creates good or bad outcomes.

Our thoughts create our world.

According to the Law of Attraction, the physical reality that you experience at present is drawn towards the future probability you desired when it attains more power.