Quotes About Reality

To costume yourself in the way that you fantasize, to make that a reality, and then to go right into the universe looking like an exceptional being takes a lot of courage.

For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe.

There is no reason that the universe should be designed for our convenience.

Truth can be a matter of perspective, but I also think there's a truth that exists, that there are laws to the universe the way Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King believed.

The universe bursts into existence from life, not the other way around as we have been taught. For each life there is a universe, its own universe. We generate spheres of reality, individual bubbles of existence. Our planet is comprised of billions of spheres of reality, generated by each individual human and perhaps even by each animal.

The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.

My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

In a deep metaphysical sense, all that is conditioned is illusory. All phenomena are literally 'appearances,' the outer masks in which the One Reality shows itself forth in our changing universe. The more 'material' and solid the appearance, the further is it from reality, and therefore the more illusory it is.

The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see but dimly during the period of our incarceration; at death we step out of the prison again into the sunlight, and are nearer to the reality.

In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.

Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.

The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.

The media is a like any other group of people. Their universe is all that matters.

Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe.

It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine.

I think; therefore, I am the center of the universe.

One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe.

There are things that I would say that you could call an instant of time; or better, a now. As we live we seem to move through a succession of instants of time, nows, and the question is, what are they? There are where everything in the universe is at this moment, now.

How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?

But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.

I believe we exist in a multiverse of universes.

Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.