Quotes About Reality

Sometimes... the only real thing is now.

he couldn't change the past, couldn't predict the future. He only had now. And that sometimes . . . the only real thing was now.

You must recognize, embrace, and be honest about what is real for you today and allow that understanding to inform the choices you make. Only then will you be able to build the future of your dreams.

illusions are tricks on the brain!

Me amas, real o no Real? Real

I tell him,"Real.""-Katniss Everdeen

The new dispensation—near-perfect retrievability—reorients us, not so subtly altering our expectations and our way of encountering our reality. It feeds the great illusion of our competence, our mastery, even as it pampers us and gives us a sense of being catered to (the psychological implication being that we're worthy). These new assumptions

By concentrated meditation—in other words, by the stilling and focusing of the vibrations of consciousness (chitta vritti nirodha)—the individualized soul is enabled to reverse this process and thus perceive its subtler reality, its Divine origin, its true Self.

There is now a transparancy to things in this new life—as though one's body and all the objects were but holographic images with no substantial reality.

Humor is an important quality that makes one cheerful in all walks of life. To cultivate this quality is very important. When the poison was given to Socrates, he was very humorous and made a few jokes. When the cup of hemlock was given to him he said, "Can I share a bit of it with the gods?" Then he smiled and said, "Poison has no power to kill a sage, for a sage lives in reality, and reality is eternal." He smiled and took the poison.

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil to lift off the bondage and illusion

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.

Of one hundred persons who take up the spiritual life, eighty turn out to be charlatans, fifteen insane, and only five, maybe, get a glimpse of the real truth. Therefore beware.

We only know the universe from the point of view of beings with five senses. Suppose we obtain another sense, the whole universe must change for us.

A little of the infinite is projected into consciousness, and that we call our world.

It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thoughts make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.

What is it that is whirling the mind? Imagination, creative activity. Stop creation and you know the truth. All power of creation must stop, and then you know the truth at once.

If there is something here that is not in the Vedas, that is your delusion. It does not exist.

All weakness, all bondage is imagination.

Then he sees that this attachment is all delusion.

Then the gods become no gods; death becomes no death; life becomes no life.

I don't think people maybe think that the government does tell them the truth. I think they expect politicians who are going to tell them one thing and then when they get in office do something else.

Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.