Quotes About Reality

The more powerful the perpetrator, the greater is his prerogative to name and define reality, and the more completely his arguments prevail.

When one begins to lose touch with reality, the ill brain latches obsessively and delusionally onto whatever it's immersed in—the surrounding culture's illness.

Fritz's first radical premise is that everyday life is already a disaster of sorts, one from which actual disaster liberates us.

The story of Cassandra, the woman who told the truth but was not believed, is not nearly as embedded in our culture as that of the Boy Who Cried Wolf—that is, the boy who was believed the first few times he told the same lie. Perhaps it should be.

The military and National Guard were deployed to prevent things that often existed largely in their imagination.

Say there is no truth. Say there are only scraps that we feebly try to sew togethr.

You cannot escape from life. Life is not a book. You can't just set it down on the coffee table and walk away from it when it gets boring or you get tired.

far as I knew. Never thought one way or the other when Mama used to take her "naps" in the middle of Christmas or Thanksgiving dinner. Never said to myself, Mama's not napping, she's passed-out drunk. Never even questioned

at that picture, you would think that no one died. You would think we were happy all the time: my mother, my baby, and

There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers. (pg. 174)

Space may be the final frontier but it's made in a Hollywood basement.

When we're deluded, there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.

There is no seer or anything seen / no speaker or anything spoken / the appearance of buddhas and also their teachings / are merely what we imagine 44. Those who view such things as real / they don't see the Buddha / nor do those who imagine nothing / only those who transform their existence.

When you realize that whether something exists or not is nothing but the perception of your own mind, its external existence is seen as nonexistent and non-arising. Mahamati, there is no contradiction in my earlier and later statements.

Mahamati, to see things as they really are means to transcend 414 what are nothing but perceptions of your own mind.

What is real i the absence of the fiction of self-existence.

the use of prajna in the title tells us this is a text that goes beyond the analysis of reality into discrete, knowable entities, such as those used by the Sarvastivadins. Thus, Zen masters ask their students to show them their original face, their face before they were born.

The Buddha asks us to see things as they really are. He does not ask us to cling to optimistic views of eternity or pessimistic views of annihilation but simply to examine our experience.

Unser Wissen vom Leben beschränkt sich auf den Tod.

The truth is, clocks don't tell time. Time is measured in meaning.

Inside, the lies you tell become the person you become. On the outside, sun and reality shrink people back to their actual size. In here, people grow into their shadows.

The continuum in which we live is not the kind of place in which middles can be unambiguously excluded.

For the Sufi, reality is neither emptiness nor illusion; reality is God.

Let go of what you think life should be so you can experience the life you have.