Quotes About Reality

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

I think that it can be assumed that no adults are ever really 'shocked' - that being shocked is always a pose.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

The discrepancy between faith and the facts is greater than is generally assumed.

Life is a series of disappointments, Mr. Tolland. Life is a series of promises that come to nothing.

It was not necessary to explain that nothing escaped the eyes of Coaltown except the truth.)

While we are in love with a person our knowledge of his weaknesses lies lurking in the back of our minds and our idealization of the loved one is not so much an exaggeration of his excellence as a careful "rationalization" of his defects.

Wherever you come near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense. . .

Live people don't understand, do they?

Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.

This world will never be...what i expected...and if i don't belong...who would've guessed it?

El Universo y todo lo que él contiene es una creación mental del TODO; todo es mente.

El universo es una creación mental".

The acceptance of the First Hermetic Principle (Mentalism) is the only great point of difference between Modern Science and Hermetic students, and Science is gradually moving toward the Hermetic position in its groping in the dark for a way out of the Labyrinth into which it has wandered in its search for Reality.

THE ALL (which is the Substantial Reality underlying all the outward manifestations and appearances which we know under the terms of "The Material Universe"; the "Phenomena of Life"; "Matter"; "Energy"; and, in short, all that is apparent to our material senses) is SPIRIT which in itself is UNKNOWABLE and UNDEFINABLE, but which may be considered and thought of as AN UNIVERSAL, INFINITE, LIVING MIND.

El TODO es mente; el Universo es mental.

THE UNIVERSE, AND ALL IT CONTAINS, IS A MENTAL CREATION OF THE ALL. Verily indeed, ALL IS MIND! "THE ALL creates in its Infinite Mind countless Universes, which exist for aeons of Time—and yet, to THE ALL, the creation, development, decline and death of a million Universes is as the time of the twinkling of an eye."—The Kybalion.     "The Infinite Mind of THE ALL is the womb of Universes."—The     Kybalion.

there is that which experiences and that which is experienced.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it." —FLANNERY O'CONNOR "I

The clarifying principle made clear the impermanence of things. It was an illusion, all of it—this life that they clung to, this earth that they battled over—a collective exercise in self-deception. The world was perishable.

Peter was a birthday party, all candles and cake and balloons. Now the party was over. Sudhir was the rest of the year, the real deal, the place where she'd built her nest. What she and Sudhir had constructed together, someone like Peter could only dream about. If he was even smart enough to realize and envy them what they had, that is. Which she somehow doubted he was.

Nuestros problemas no surgen porque los otros no sean lo que pensamos que eran, sino porque erróneamente pensamos que eran algo que no son.

Ciertas ideas erróneas básicas alimentan nuestro apego. Estas son: (1) que las cosas, las personas y las relaciones no cambian; (2) que nos pueden proporcionar felicidad duradera; (3) que son puras; y (4) que poseen una esencia real y brillante.