Quotes About Reality

I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality. We can know that reality is good just as it is, because when we argue with it, we experience tension and frustration. We don't feel natural or balanced. When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.

There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.

The world is your perception of it. Inside and outside always match - they're reflections of each other. The world is a mirror image of your mind.

Whenever you mentally oppose what is, you're going to experience sadness and apparent separation. There's no sadness without a story. What is is. You are it.

There's no reason to believe that thoughts match reality. As you move through life, thoughts appear like shots in the dark. They are no more than vague attempts to figure out what's going on around and inside you. When you're seeking love and approval, many thoughts are aimed at deciphering the behavior of the people you care about, or theorizing about what's going on in their minds.

The Work is merely four questions; it's not even a thing. It has no motive, no strings. It's nothing without your answers. These four questions will join any program you've got and enhance it. Any religion you have—they'll enhance it. If you have no religion, they will bring you joy. And they'll burn up anything that isn't true for you. They'll burn through to the reality that has always been waiting.

When I listened within myself I saw that the world is what it is – nothing more, nothing less. Where reality is concerned, there is no "what should be." There is only what is, just the way it is, right now. The truth is prior to every story. And every story, prior to investigation, prevents us from seeing what's true.

Reality is always kinder than the stories we tell about it.

Every time you try to change someone, you are trying to change someone that doesn't exist. They only exist in your head. People are who you believe them to be.

Your story is your identity, and you'd do almost anything to prove that it's true. Inquiry into self is the only thing that has the power to penetrate such ancient concepts. Even

You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.

In reality, the pain we feel about a past event is created in the present

If I believe I need something I don't have I'm insane.

You can argue with reality all you want, or you can stop arguing long enough to understand it and be free.

Problems can exist only in a past or future.

It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem.

1. Is it true? 2. Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3. How do you react when you believe that thought? 4. Who would you be without the thought?

Is it true?        2. Can you absolutely know that it's true?        3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought?        4. Who would you be without the thought?

Reality doesn't wait for our agreement or approval. It is what it is. You can count on it. Gary:

As I often say, if you argue with reality, you lose—but only 100 percent of the time.

El mundo es tu percepción de él. Lo interior y lo exterior siempre se corresponden: el uno refleja al otro. El mundo es el reflejo de tu mente. Si experimentas caos y confusión en tu interior, tu mundo exterior tiene que reflejarlo. Tienes que ver lo que crees, porque eres el pensador confundido que mira hacia fuera y se ve a sí mismo. Eres el intérprete de todo, y si eres caótico, lo que oyes y lo que ves tiene que ser un caos.

A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It's not our thoughts, but the attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering.

Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn't—that there was never anything to forgive

La realidad es siempre más amable que las historias que contamos sobre ella.