Quotes About Reality

I realise, as I stand swaying on the splintered slabs, that I have lost the thread of real life. It is stretching to an infinite thinness. And I am losing the equally fragile thread of sanity; it will not be long.

It is possible to create physical matter, or at least a convincing illusion of such, by the power of thought alone.

Don't fall for the glamour, beloved. We need our wits about us today.

The facts were locked up somewhere; it was felt we no longer needed them, that their starkness might harm the delicate balance of our relationship with this world.

As a child, I had thought the guardian-pursuers to be very real, but as I grew older, I concluded they were simply products of our own imaginations, shaped into being by the trauma of the scrying rite we all undergo at eight years of age. It's not impossible that the scryers conjure them forth from the murk of the soulscape itself anchoring the vigilant images to our conscious minds by an insidiously instilled sense of guilt.

The stories are true in a way. They do steal people. But not in the way we thought.

There is a point when facing the unknown stops being a longed-for adventure and becomes a terrifying reality.

There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute.

sayin so don't make it so

Apparently I can't prove the chair I'm sitting on exists, because I only think it exists because my bum tells me it does and I can't empirically trust my bum to tell the truth...' 'That what it says?' 'Far as I can tell, one of the great philosophical minds of the eighteenth century thinks my arse is a liar.

Don't downgrade your dream just to fit your reality. Upgrade your conviction to match your destiny.

If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the un-manifested life that animates your physical form.

Their impoverished condition somehow made them very real people. It's hard to be phony when you haven't got anything.

While life expectancy may be variable, death expectancy remains unchanged.

Though we are made of memories, we live only in the here and now.

the truth was not, despite popular opinion, objective. "Your truth and my truth are not necessarily the same thing, and yet neither is false.

Y nosotros aquí, en nuestro mundo, aburridísimo en comparación, pensando que lo sabemos y que lo vemos todo." Robert Crawford

Vivimo en un mundo que no sólo es más extraño de lo que pensamos, sino más extraño de lo que podemos pensar." Sir James Hopwood Jeans

Los visitantes con esperanzas puestas en el comercio apícola me resultan interesantes y conmovedores; muchos son jóvenes y despiertan a la madre que hay en mí. Suelen tener trabajos aburridos que detestan, y la idea de poseer una granja con abejas en el campo es para ellos una fantasía reconfortante. Procuro no desanimarlos, pero a veces no me queda más remedio. En estos tiempos, casi cualquier tipo de trabajo rural condena a los novatos a la bancarrota.

Perfect days are just the world setting you up to rip you down.

There is nothing perfect...only life.

Nothing was true for long. In time, everything was deconstructed.

Your trouble is, you want to be happy all the time. You're fifty years old -- haven't you realized yet that most of the time most of us just trudge through life? Happy days are few and far between.