Quotes About Reality

Lepota, najve?a od svih varki ?ovekovih; ako je ne uzmeš - nema je, ako pokušaš da je uzmeš - prestaje da postoji.

Sobald eine Regierung es für notwendig befindet, ihren Bürgern durch Plakate Frieden und Wohlstand zu versprechen, muss man auf der Hut sein und das Gegenteil davon erwarten.

Jede Generation hat ihre Illusionen über die Zivilisation, die einen glauben, an ihrem Aufflammen teilzuhaben, die anderen, Zeugen ihres Erlöschens zu sein. In Wahrheit lodert und schwelt und erlischt sie immer gleichzeitig, je nachdem, unter welchem Blickwinkel wir sie betrachten.

When you think that someone else thinks you are wrong or guilty because of the color of your skin, your responses to or interactions with them are not grounded in reality. They are the result of programming and conditioning.

The negative ego reminds you of every slight, every hurt, and every mistake, as well as of the insufficiency of your responses in order to install and maintain a fear-based reality.

But of course, time didn't work like that. And memory is but a television show of your own life, a movie screen that you can play witness to, but not interact with, change to course of, redirect.

Schmerz ist Wahrheit; alles andere wird angezweifelt.

All of which makes up a story I do not choose to tell. I choose not to tell it because to no one, not even to you, do I own proof that I am a substantial being with a substantial history in the world.

Expecta­tions can become goals, which only get in the way of the experience we are having in this moment.

I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks the use of an angelic (or seemingly angelic character), whose likes have been written about for, oh, about 4,000 years, is ripping off Star Trek, has his head so thoroughly up his ass as to have blipped into an entirely new intestinally-based reality and desperately needs to get a wider frame of reference.

You can't just pick up a gun and become a gunfighter, or go off and explore for a new world, or pull a sword out of a stone, or rescue a damsel in distress, or-- so we play games and we read books because the world isn't the world we thought we were supposed to get, the world we thought we'd been promised by somebody. Because things didn't turn out the way they were supposed to. So we go someplace else.

she had nothing now that the fantasy was gone.

All the stories we tell ourselves are wrong.

Drinking doesn't make problems go away. Just because you can't remember them doesn't mean they're not there.

Can't change what was, she said with a shrug. So you deal with what is

Idols always fall, Eve.

Oh, come on. People see ghosts all the time." "That's because people, by and large, are whacked.

You can't make this shit up.

You have to believe the lie to live it, to make others see you the way you need to be seen.

I've eliminated everything else. This is what's left. And when you've eliminated everything else, what's left should be true.

You have a point, but love can also cause you to see things as you prefer to see them, as you want them to be.

People always think it can't happen to them, instead of thinking it's going to happen to somebody, why not me." She

I thought it was 'innocent until proven guilty'' That's just one of the bigger lies we live by.

It's typical for some who've been through combat to romanticize it