Quotes About Reality

In LA, you think you're making something up, but it's making you up.

You're in the lights and he thinks you're exposed, he's in the dark and he thinks he's hidden. But he's not hidden, he's dead, and you're not exposed, you're alive.

We often think we know things when in fact it's only our imagination taking us further and further away from what is actually happening. What we imagine then seems very real to us. Soon we're caught up in our imaginary longings and loathings. But if you're here - truly present - you realize there's nothing to run from or to go after. You can stay calm...Just be with this moment and see what's going on. (9)

We can only be here. We can't leave. We are always here.

It's called enlightenment. It's nothing more or less than seeing things as they are rather than as we wish or believe them to be.

The biggest mistake we make in confusing a concept with Reality is in … the separation of self and other.

Belief is at best an educated, informed conjecture about Reality.

He checked himself without really looking at himself. He was ten pounds heavier and a few dozen hairs grayer than he'd been the year before. He knew that. He didn't need to see it again.

You've baked a really lovely cake, but then you've used dog shit for frosting.

Nothing is as unpopular as the truth."

The greatest enemy to fear is truth."

There's a difference between having the faith to believe and having the faith to receive.

We only have now! Everything else is either imagination or memory."

Your agreement with reality defines your life."

Your dream is a reality that is just waiting for you to materialize it!"

Your fear of the truth does not hide or dilute it."

Your perceptions create your reality."

Comedy Is Not Pretty!

I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.

I would assign every lie a color: yellow when they were innocent, pale blue when they sailed over you like the sky, red because I knew they drew blood. And then there was the black lie. That's the worst of all. A black lie was when I told you the truth.

Einstein wrote, "Whether you can observe a thing or not depends on the theory which you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed.

You live in a world of illusion Where everything's peaches and cream We all face a scarlet conclusion But we spend our time in a dream

Our beliefs act as lenses. These lenses can help us see things we can't otherwise see, but they can also block us from seeing parts of reality.

In the natural childbirth classes my wife and I took, the birthing process was represented by a hand puppet being pushed through a sock. So at the actual birth I was shocked to see all this blood. The thing I had prepared myself for was a lot of lint.