Quotes About Reality

Life is overcome, not by finding a strong ally (God), but through the soul's ability to develop a fresh perspective that enables the transformation of harsh realities into songs.

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

The difference between what I think is valuable and what is really valuable creates waste.

Who does ever get what they want? It doesn't seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It's always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings.

You can't fix things, can you, Louis said. We always want to. But we can't.

And they had folded his brother's hands across his suited chest, as if he would be preserved in this sanguine pose forever, but only the heavy callouses visible at the sides of his hands seemed real. It was only the callouses that appeared to be familiar and believable.

But facts are chiels that winna ding, and downa be disputed.

I began to get a feeling ... of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.

Where ever men go, in heaven, or earth, or hell they find themselves, and that is all they find.

The true entity of all phenomena can only be understood and shared between Buddhas. This reality consists of the appearance, nature, entity, power, influence, inherent cause, relation, latent effect, manifest effect, and their consistency from beginning to end.

We must recognize an unfortunate fact: In many regions of the world tonight, the reality is conflict, not peace. Enduring animosities and opposing interests remain. And thus, the cause of peace must be served by an America strong enough and sure enough to defend our interests and our ideals.

Some of the scientists, I believe, haven't they been changing their opinion a little bit on global warming? There's a lot of differing opinions and before we react I think it's best to have the full accounting, full understanding of what's taking place.

You make yourself go to sleep. You just tell yourself it's a dream.

The universe is the way it is. It's not going to be changed by supplications.

A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It's not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it's true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we've been attaching to, often for years.

I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.

The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.

When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.

When you srgue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.

We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to tbe true in the moment.

It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it's helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, "You're caught in the dream." Depression, pain, and fear are gifts that say, "Sweetheart, take a look at your thinking right now. You're living in a story that isn't true for you.

Like in a dream, everything seemed to be on the point of vanishing but at the same time ablaze with persistent reality.

Pensé: el mundo en el que uno se despierta es otro que el mundo en el que uno se durmió. Basta con abrir los ojos.

the transformation would be accomplished not in the dimension of time but in that of meaning.