Quotes About Reality

Equality is a lie.

myths and mistruths get thrown around so often they eventually feel familiar and start to sound like the truth.

Be careful how you interpret the world; it is like that." —Erich Heller

There is this pervasive idea that the successful person is the "disciplined person" who leads a "disciplined life." It's a lie.

You won't hear a character's friend say this in a romantic comedy. Taylor Swift won't sing this, Eminem won't rap it, and Suzanne Collins won't write it, but it's true: just because you're "in love" with someone doesn't mean you should seriously consider marrying them.

The sad reality is that when we get married for trivial reasons, we will seek divorce for trivial reasons. We need something much more lasting on which to base a lifelong commitment—one that even has eternal implications.

The reality of the human condition is such that, according to Porter (and I agree), we must "salvage our fragments of happiness" out of life's inevitable sufferings.

chapter 12 follows up by teaching the sad but essential reality that in order to maintain our mission before God, we must learn how to be hated without letting it distract or destroy us.

We never slept together until our wedding night, so the honeymoon was a rather intoxicating experience, but once the honeymoon was over, reality immediately set in like a dense Seattle fog.

Christianity doesn't make much sense without the reality of heaven.

getting married won't make you happy or an adult; getting married simply makes you … married.

If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care?

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

continue to be amazed at how reasonably intelligent individuals can actually believe their claims of innocence and not recognize the blatant self-rationalizations, selective perceptions, distortions of reality, denial, and self-deception in their

As a Sufi Muslim you cultivated within yourself the thought of oneness, or monism, and made progress in experiencing each seemingly separate thing as an illusory veil over the eternal truth. You recognized the reality of God and the unimportance of matter, and one of the verses of the Koran that was the most dear to you was, "All things in creation suffer extinction and there remaineth the face of thy Lord in its majesty and bounty.

One way the Holy Spirit will awaken you is to teach you that what you think is happening is not happening.

and then the incomprehensible power of your mind to make illusions as a perceiver — rather than make spirit as a creator

Hitler and everyone else in the world, including you, are equally innocent because what you are seeing

knowing the world is an illusion is not enough. The Gnostics and some early Christians called the world a dream; the Hindus call it maya and the Buddhists call it anicca, all meaning pretty much the same thing. But if you don't know the purpose of the dream and how to reinterpret the images you are seeing, which is something we'll get into later, then the general teaching that the world is an illusion is of very limited value.

we're saying he had awakened from the dream. That's not just a minor distinction, Gary. Indeed, being more seemingly awake in the dream is what passes for enlightenment among very many, but that's not what we're teaching.

The real goal isn't dressing up your life; it's about awakening from what you think is your life! Then you're building your house upon the rock. J's message isn't about fixing up the world.

As he puts it in the Course, you are "reviewing mentally what has gone by."16 By the way, could there be a better definition of watching a movie? It's already been filmed, and it's already over and done with. And now you're watching it. And part of what you're watching is your own body! Your body is just a part of the same projection as all those other bodies you see.

The Disappearance of the Universe