Quotes About Reality

THE WORD suchness describes reality as it is. Concepts and ideas are incapable of expressing reality as it is. Nirvana, the ultimate reality, cannot be described, because it is free of all concepts and ideas. Nirvana is the extinction of all concepts. Most of our suffering arises from our ideas and concepts. If you are able to free yourself from these concepts, anxiety and fear will disappear. Nirvana, the ultimate reality, or God, is of the nature of no-birth and no-death. It is total freedom.

To reach truth is not to accumulate knowledge, but to awaken to the heart of reality. Reality reveals itself complete and whole at the moment of awakening. In the light of this awakening, nothing is added and nothing is lost; but emotions that are based on concepts can no longer affect a man.

When we can see the non-rose elements when looking at a rose, it is safe for us to use the word rose. When we look at A and see that A is not A, we know that A is truly A. Then A is no longer a dangerous obstacle for us.

If one clings merely to a system of concepts, one only becomes stuck. The meditation on interdependence is to help one penetrate reality in order to be one with it, not to become caught up in philosophical opinion or meditation methods. The raft is used to cross the river. It isn't to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn't the moon itself.

Truth is reality itself and not concepts. If we cling to a certain number of concepts and consider them as being reality, we lose reality.

You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.

People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

Journalists do not write about human feelings.

Everything is fiction. You only have your own life to work with in the way that a biographer only has the letters and journals to work with.

False expectations take away joy.

Although we hardly see each other off the set, Joy and I get along well when we do. As far as the marriage between Nathan and Haley, I think they are young and will see the reality of the situation eventually.

There are many ways people think of God, and thousands of flavors of Christianity, Judaism, Islam... but they're always looking at something that's not measurable or you can't really see or control.

We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

Nicki Minaj I think is one of the best judges I've ever worked with.

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

One can hope to be like Julie Christie, and with a bit of luck might be able to, but you couldn't hope to be like Rita Hayworth.

People look at your CV and assume you jump from job to job to job. They don't see the months in between where you're waiting for the phone to ring, or you're waiting to hear about things.

There's Frog Jump on my GPS, so it's there. It's a real place.

I'm not a huge musical fan. It's like when people just jump out singing; it's not real.

When I entered the jungle for 'I'm A Celebrity,' my confidence was so low.

As far as I know, I'm not going to the jungle anytime soon. Unless it's one of those shows where you don't know you're going to be on it and they just kidnap you for one night.

All junior artistes feel they will become like Amitabh Bachchan or Shah Rukh Khan. That is everyone's dream in the industry.