Quotes About Reality

Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal

There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.

What governs men is the fear of truth.

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an' death's the other.

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

When we think of an experience as "only a dream" it is less "real" to us. It loses power over us—power that it only had because we gave it power—and can no longer disturb us and drive us into negative emotional states.

Dreams arise from the same karmic traces that govern our waking experiences. If we axe too distracted to penetrate the fantasies and delusions of the moving mind during the day, we will most likely be bound by the same limitations in dream.

When we think of an experience as "only a dream" it is less "real" to us. It loses power over us—power that it only had because we gave it power—and can no longer disturb us and drive us into negative emotional states. Instead, we begin to encounter all experience with greater calm and increased clarity, and even with greater appreciation

Because karmic traces are the roots of dreams, when they are entirely exhausted only the pure light of awareness remains: no movie, no story, no dreamer and no dream, only the luminous fundamental nature that is absolute reality. This is why enlightenment is the end of dreams and is known as "awakening.

It may sound like a mess, but sometimes mess can be okay, mess can be fine. Sometimes mess is just another word for living your life as real you, not someone else's version of what they think you should be.

The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

Only psychos and shamans create their own reality

Cuántas Madame Bovary, como en el siglo XIX, hay ahora en Santiago de Chile de dos mil y tantos!

La memoria no existe y todo es incorrecto y falso, apenas merecedor del nombre de ensueño. Estaba,

Before, you were only a dream. Now you're a dream come true

She had fooled herself into believing she was living the life she'd always dreamed of living when all she had been doing was hiding from it.

there are elements of truth in all great fiction

It is only from the lofty height of dreams, that we may appreciate the true glory of reality.

The lack of one's understanding is set by the reality they are willing to accept.