Quotes About Reality

These emotional habits operate as powerful lenses on our reality, leading us to mistake how things seem for how they actually are.

Imperfection is not our personal problem - it is a natural part of existing.

Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.

Nothing is wrong—whatever is happening is just "real life.

We can't understand the nature of reality until we let go of controlling our experience.

There is only one world, the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive, this minute here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

was manipulating my inner experience rather than being with what was actually happening.

Our reality is the thoughts and dramas we see in our mental movies. We

When we get lost in our stories, we lose touch with our actual experience.

no matter how hard we try to control life, we have no sway over the bedrock realities of change, loss, and mortality.

I looked at the fashion model and reassured myself she wasn't dead.

Just because it's in a book doesn't mean it isn't real.' - Great Aunt Celia

Just because it's in a book doesn't mean it isn't real.' Great Aunt Celia, The Spider Goddess.

That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.

Mental ghettos are not mirages; they actually exist in palpable reality: being "open" inside one's mental or intellectual ghetto does not open its door but simply allows one to harbour the illusion that there is no ghetto and no door. The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars.

Les prisons les plus dangereuses sont celles dont on ne voit pas les barreaux.

I knew now there was no such thing as a biblioblackhole. Everything written truly lived. Every real word. Every real story. You had to find your words. You had to find your story.

You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.

Instinctively, we assume that objects exist separate from the mind, but any investigation of objects necessarily involves the mind in some way, so knowledge always has a subjective element. We know there is a pen because we experience the pen. Thus, no object of knowledge exists apart from the mind experiencing it.

Mind is mere experience—it is not matter; therefore its cause must be the same.

We do not perceive things directly but perceive rather our thoughts about things. And these stories and perceptions, when accompanied by powerful emotions, can dramatically color our experiences.

It is vital that we are clear that the Prasangika Madhyamaka masters are not denying the existence of self, body, pain, table, and so on; they are arguing that the mind apprehends these things as if they have inherent nature, which they do not.

When we misconceive reality it is very easy to become obsessed. And then, when our obsession lets us down, which will definitely happen sooner or later, we will experience anger and depression.

We are ignorant of the fundamental nature of the way things exist, and we feel anxiety because of this.