Quotes About Reality

If all of the dos and don'ts of quantum possibilities are true and emotion is the key to choosing reality, then the question is: "How do we feel as if something has happened when the person next to us stares us squarely in the face and says that it hasn't?

According to Bohr and Heisenberg, the universe exists as an infinite number of overlapping possibilities.

In this system, our world could be considered a shadow or a projection of events that are happening in a deeper, underlying reality.

Key 7: The focus of our awareness becomes the reality of our world.

implications are mind-boggling.

While all of the possibilities exist at some point in time, the state that needs the lowest amount of energy is the most stable and the one that we experience as our reality.

In our analogy of the universe as a consciousness computer with feelings, emotions, beliefs, and prayers programming reality, it makes perfect sense that we would have an instruction manual that highlights the steps of reality making. And we do: Through the ages, the most enlightened masters have shared it with us in bits and pieces.

Key 8: To simply say that we choose a new reality is not enough!

However, as distinct as they may appear from one another, Bohm suggested that they're linked in a deeper reality in ways that we simply cannot see from our place in creation.

In the teachings of Mahayana Buddhism, it's believed that reality can exist only where our mind creates a focus.

observation is an act of creation, and that consciousness is doing the creating.

the object of our attention becomes the reality of our world.

In our beliefs about who we are, what we have and don't have, and what should and shouldn't be, we breathe life into our greatest joys as well as our darkest moments.

The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained … all existing things are … imaginary.

Both science and mysticism describe a force that connects everything together and gives us the power to influence how matter behaves—and reality itself—simply through the way we perceive the world around us.

reality. Death would have been preferable. She slid the glass back into the indentation it had made on her Pottery Barn catalog.

They talk about it like it's all jukebox slow dances and sweaty lovemaking and princess-cut diamonds. But sometimes it's just your wife sitting frog style on the kitchen floor after a workout, looking for an omelet pan.

Thank you, honey. I don't mean to be ungrateful, it just seems like there are no real people here. You know what I mean?" Her shoulders dropped. "Not many real people anywhere for us anymore.

In daylight her death had taken on a reality. It lived in the house with them, in the dust on the floors, the blankness of the ceilings, the soft, unanswered noises of his movement past her room. After

The dream is never the dream. It's a bunch of compromises and, if you're lucky, a few decent people now and then.

She later said that she had only told the police "like ten percent of the bad stuff." Investigators, however, understood that 10 percent of a nightmare is still a nightmare.

Wondering whether Christianity is real is not the same as wondering whether Christianity is true. If you question the truth of Christianity, you can do something tangible about it. You can read books, take a class, or talk to someone about it. But what can you do when you're already convinced it's true but don't experience it as real?

The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named.

All experience is subjective.