Quotes About Reality

Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness." —NEVILLE GODDARD, BARBADIAN AUTHOR AND MYSTIC

A Truer, Grander Vision "You can never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." —

Your wildest misperceptions, your weird imaginings, your blackest nightmares all mean nothing." —A COURSE IN MIRACLES

You can go back time and time again to the shoe store, but it will never sell milk.

on visiting the USSR after Stalin regime installed) All right, I can see the broken eggs. Now where's this omelette of yours?

Car il n'y a de beauté que dans l'illusion. Et qu'on atteigne ou non le but de sa course, l'amertume a presque le même goût dans les deux cas. Les fins se valent toujours.

structure of creation. Nature herself is maya; natural science must perforce

Remember, people suffer only because they think things ought to be different from what they are. A

Moral: Attachment is blinding; it lends an imaginary halo of attractiveness to the object of desire.

Moral: Attachment is blinding; it lends an imaginary halo of attractiveness to the object of desire. "A

delusion, and it won't be long before you discover that you, too, "see" God in everything: that He is your only treasure, your only reality. To

All creative scientists know that the true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions they uncover the laws of truth.

Imagination is the door through which disease as well as healing enters. Disbelieve in the reality of sickness even when you are ill; an unrecognised visitor will flee!

Worldly people do not like the candor which shatters their delusions.

Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles.

We are in a dream state. The only way to wake up is to refuse to recognize anything as reality except God. Otherwise you will again and again sink to your knees in a mud of suffering that is of your own making, until you realize that neither good fortune nor evil fortune is real, that He alone is real. Then all earthly delusions (disease and health, joy and sorrow, life and death) will pass away.

Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, while trying at the same time to remove their hold. Imagination is the door through which disease as well as healing enters. Disbelieve in the reality of sickness even when you are ill; an unrecognized visitor will flee!

A dreaming person does not know that a nightmare is unreal until he wakes up.

The tragedy of death is unreal... Children of light; they will not sleep forever in delusion [in the physical world of maya illusions]. [...] Creation is only a vast motion picture; and not in it, but beyond it, lies [one's] own reality.

Noumenon beyond phenomena. Thought of the divine incorporeity

God is simple. Everything else is complex. Do not seek absolute values in the relative world of nature." These

human being falsely identifies himself with his physical form because the life currents from the soul are breath-conveyed into the flesh with such intense power that man mistakes the effect for a cause, and idolatrously imagines the body to have life of its own. Man's

My guru, awake in God, knew this world to be nothing but an objectivized dream of the Creator.

The divine realm extends to the earthly, but the latter, being illusory, cannot include the essence of reality.