Quotes About Reality

Not to put too fine a point on it, one could say that the real picture consists of nothing but exceptions to the rule, and that, in consequence, absolute reality has predominantly the character of irregularity.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

There is no rule that is true under all circumstances, for this is the real and not a statistical world. Because the statistical method shows only the average aspects, it creates an artificial and predominantly conceptual picture of reality.

The individual is the only reality. The further we move away from the individual toward abstract ideas about Homo sapiens, the more likely we are to fall into error. In these times of social upheaval and rapid change, it is desirable to know much more than we do about the individual human being, for so much depends upon his mental and moral qualities.

What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.

We cannot slay our incapacity and rise above it, but that is precisely what we wanted. Incapacity exists. No one should deny it, find fault with it or shout it down.

A belief proves to me only the phenomenon of belief, not the content of the belief.

In this way he slips imperceptibly into a purely conceptual world where the products of his conscious activity progressively take the place of reality.

The image of God has a shadow. The supreme meaning is real and casts a shadow. For what can be actual and corporeal and have no shadows?

like a dream which seems a reality as long as we are in it.

A career, producing of children, are all maya [illusion] compared to that one thing, that your life is meaningful.

One of the doctors who reviewed how people had performed in that operating room could have been speaking about denial in general when he astutely said: "It's like waking up in your house with a room full of smoke, opening the window to let the smoke out, and then going back to bed.

Cuando aceptamos que la violencia la comete gente que mira y actúa como el resto de nosotros, silenciamos la voz de la negación, la voz que susurra: "Este tipo no parece un asesino".

Worry is the fear we manufacture—it is not authentic. If

When we accept that violence is committed by people who look and act like people, we silence the voice of denial, the voice that whispers, "This guy doesn't look like a killer." Our

Rule #1. The very fact that you fear something is solid evidence that it is not happening.

The solution to violence in America is the acceptance of reality

One minute you're on top of the world and the next minute you're gone you're gone and nobody can help you.

For nursery days are gone, nightmare is real and there are no good Fairies. The fox's teeth are in the bunny and nothing can remove them, honey.

Dac? lumea ar fi fost perfect?, atunci nici eu nu a? fi existat

All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is. —BUDDHA

mentioned earlier that most worry-thoughts have absolutely nothing to do with reality. That's true for criticism, too. In other words, when we criticize something, it usually doesn't have anything to do with the thing we're criticizing. When we blame someone or something, we're doing it because we've hit our Upper Limit and are trying to retard the flow of positive energy. When

unless you were me, once again distorting reality so it would fit a negative mindset. I don't need any outside enemies. I have a perfectly good one residing right between my ears.

There is only one way to transform an entanglement into a relationship: both people must drop projection and see that they are 100 percent the creators of their reality.