Quotes About Reality

There's silence for a long moment as we all watch him go: then, like air whizzing out of a balloon, we all deflate. No more excitement for us. The hot boy has left the building.

As is often the case in politics, the truth was less important than public perception.

I feel like a three-dimensional girl in a two-dimensional world.

Everyone is asleep. They've all been asleep for years. You seemed ... awake.' Alex is whispering now. He closes his eyes, opens them again.'I'm tired of sleeping.

But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.

That's the way I feel, at least: like there's a real me and a reflection of me, and I have no way of telling which is which.

We are here making myths that are, at the same time, absolutely true.

In illness, the world went wonderfully warped, high temperatures turning your pillow to a dune of snow and bringing the night sky, with its daisy-sized stars, so close to your bed you could touch it, and taste the moon.

Prozac, too made me want to weep. Prozac, too, was grief, because it returned me to the regular world with consequences I never expected.

I don't feel like a mother. [...] I thought I would be smashed flat, or heaved high, mythically altered for this, the most mythic of roles but, shock of all shock, here I am, still me. And the baby? I have come to like her a little bit. That's it. A little bit.

Everyone knows that a lot of memoirs have made-up scenes; it's obvious. And everyone knows that half the time at least fictions contain literal autobiographical truths. So how do we decide what's what, and does it even matter?

Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired well before I set foot in any history class. They came from Margaret Mitchell, from Anya Seton, from M.M. Kaye, and a host of other authors, in their crackly plastic library bindings. Whether historians acknowledge it or not, scholarly history's illegitimate cousin, the historical novel, plays a profound role in shaping widely held conceptions of historical realities.

I knew, as soon as I woke up, that the dream had come from God and it was about the reality of Jesus. The truth of Him. The He was a person whose pronouns you had to capitalize. That He was God.

You do not exist to serve the illusion. The illusion exists to serve you.

Striving for perfection is a good and worthwhile effort. Expecting to actually attain perfection can kill you.

he would present phenomena as he observed them with his own eyes.

God is Infinite, and as a person partakes in this Infinite Reality, he or she is also partaking in the infinite variation of this Reality. There's no solid reality as people commonly think of it.

You do not need to have faith that oxygen is in the air. You simply breathe normally. The oxygen is in you and around you. You cannot see it, but you can breathe it. You know it exists. You do not need faith in oxygen to breathe. In this exact way, you have a direct connection to Ultimate Reality.

The Supreme Reality, also known as the Uncreated of the First Being, manifested its own fullness. For reasons which will become increasingly clear, Gnostics have always been reserved when it comes to naming this Absolute Reality. Another way of looking at the Supreme Reality is that there is a Reality behind everyday reality.

The fully actualized human being is a person who maximizes his or her potential. This activation process attempts to move consciousness from one reality to another, including the incorporation of being aware of multiple realities existing simultaneously. The objective of the actualized integral human being is to unite with the One, the Source, to achieve unity (from the Greek henosis) and to perfect oneself.

In the ancient Sufi oral tradition, Divine Reality says: I was a Hidden Treasure and then I desired to be known, so I created a creation to which I made Myself known; then they knew Me.

What makes dreams so fascinating to this discussion is that when a person is dreaming, he or she believes that the dream is real.

However, some realities lack an integral congruence, they lack an alignment with the attributes of the nature of the Absolute. When people say, 'Something smells rotten,' they are intuitively referring to the fact that something is not in harmony with the truth or it is synthetic (lacking in authenticity).

In the Galactic Nucleus, in the place known as the Pleroma are located a group of glorious beings named the Aeons. They are emanations of the Absolute Reality. They may also be considered divisions within the Godhead, as well as the various aspects of dimensions of the Infinitely Pre-Existent and in some spiritual traditions, the Names of God.