Quotes About Reality

The primary reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.

The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.

Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.

But neither life, nor human history, turn out to support such a notion.

There is never any real danger in allowing a pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on it. One sees him always over and over again kicking his pedestal out from under him, and using it to batter a world with.

The pictures were the only items in the file that weren't complete fiction.

Nipples are a fact of life. We all have them.

This is a crazy world, Margo. Maybe you need t o be a little crazy to see it.

It's television, dear. Nobody expects it to be real, just convincing." Eve was about to tell her mom that her life is real, that her cases are real, that not everything on TV is scripted and performed, but then she thought about that press conference and realized she was wrong.

I'm not sure whether I'm losing my grip on reality," he said. "Or if reality is losing its grip on us.

No offense, but there have been enough cop shows about white, middle-aged, male homicide detectives. But we're going to stay honest to your reality." Simone glanced at Eve. "Especially yours.

said he had a "unique artistic vision," which wasn't exactly a lie. His vision just happened to be shit.

don't know how much of this book has become reality in the time between when I finished writing it and when it ended up in your hands. My fear is that a lot of it has . .

The people who live in these places think the gates protect them from all the crime and misery that's out there, but it doesn't. It just locks them in with it.

It was my biggest fear to go crazy like my mom. I worried about waking up one day and no longer understanding reality in quite the same way, being lost in the black hole of madness.

Most mental health problems don't look like we expect. People with crushing depression still laugh and clap their hands. People with bipolar depression still go to work, order coffee at Starbucks, tread in dog shit, get married.

The future ain't what it used to be - and what's more, it never was.

You can pretend that your life is going on when really, all along, you're trapped in a moment you'll never be able to change.

You have to be in the right state of mind to see opportunities and not fall into the old, negative habits of allowing others to put information about reality into your head that holds you back from the wealth you so richly deserve.

Innovators have the visionary gift of looking ahead, the inventor's ability to create, and the entrepreneur's ability to sell. Above all, innovators have a burning desire to make their dreams into reality. They are not content to imagine the future; they want to create it.

Social psychology stands at the intersection between our eyes and the world in front of us, and helps us understand the difference between what we think we see and what is actually out there.

My belief is that we have only one life, that this is all there is.

There is no meaning to space that is independent of the relationships among real things of the world. [...] Space is nothing apart from the things that exist. [...] If we take out all the words we are not left with an empty sentence, we are left with nothing.

Rule 2 raises a whole bunch of questions. Does the wave function collapse abruptly or does it take some time? Does the collapse take place as soon as the system interacts with the detector? Or only later, when a record is made? Or perhaps later still, when it is perceived by a conscious mind? Is the collapse a physical change, which means that the quantum state is real? Or is it just a change in our knowledge of the system, which means the