Quotes About Reality

What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.

Truth is multi-dimensional; it depends on the perspective you view from.

It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of the effect on men's minds.

Wisdom is not having illusions, especially anything in your own mind that elevates you above others.

We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half.

Suppose there is a wave in the ocean. The wave is distinct from the ocean only in its form and name, and this form and this name cannot have any separate existence from the wave; they exist only with wave. The wave may subside but the same amount of water remains, even if the name and form that were on the wave vanish for ever. So this Maya is what makes the difference between me and you , between all animals and man, between gods and men.

The world is neither good nor bad; the world is the world. The

There was a stump of a tree, and in the dark, a thief came that way and said, "That is a policeman." A young man waiting for his beloved saw it and thought that it was his sweetheart. A child who had been told ghost stories took it for a ghost and began to shriek. But all the time it was the stump of a tree. We see the world as we are. Do

The Yogis say that the man who has discriminating powers, the man of good sense, sees through all that are called pleasure and pain, and knows that they come to all, and that one follows and melts into the other; he sees that men follow an ignis fatuus all their lives, and never succeed in fulfilling their desires.

Matter is the permanent possibility of sensations," said John Stuart Mill. It is only the suggestion that is outside.

Freedom is to lose all illusions.

An objective heaven or millenium therefore has existence only in fancy, but a subjective one is already in existence.

Truth never dreams.

A perfect life is a contradiction in terms.

Gabriel Oh come on Stan Not everything ends the way you think it should Besides, audiences love happy endings.

Gabriel Well...life is stranger than fiction sometimes.

The self," Blackmore writes, "is just a fleeting impression that arises with each experience and fades away again. . . . There is no inner self," she argues, "only multiple parallel processes that give rise to a benign inner delusion—a useful fiction." She argues that consciousness itself is a fiction.

Nothing the night said about the morning turned out to be true.

For what are most of our stories but cartoon versions of the past? Our personal history is the well-worn version of ourselves we've settled for, in which we come across as pitiful stick figures, "bored to death with ourselves and with the world," as don Juan said.

I don't believe in God. Not with my mind. Not with my sense. I believe in what you can see and feel and hear and know. But sometimes a mood comes over me when all of life seems mysterious. The seasons. Things that grow. The different ways to be a person. My dreams.

Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality.

The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?

I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.