Quotes About Reality

Qué es lo que verían, qué es lo que escucharían decir a sus fantasmas? ¿Variarían de día en día, o de hora en hora, o su alucinación sería invariable y fija como una pesadilla que durara eternamente?

Kan dere sitte her og late som om verden er den samme? Når bladene har hengt seg opp på trærne igjen, når regnet har trukket seg tilbake i skyene, når sola har splintret tåka, når det har gått et menneske gjennom skolegården og lagt gullstøv i grusen, kan dere bare sitte her og si at alt er som før?

After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.

Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say 'Yes, I'm sitting next to the butcher now,' instead of saying 'there is no butcher'.

If all I can say is I'm not in this swamp, I'm not in this swamp then there is not a rope in front of me and there is not an alligator behind me and there is not a girl sitting at the edge eating a hot dog and if I believe that, then dying would be the only answer because then Death couldn't come and say Peachy to me anymore and after all she has a brother who believes in hope.

I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

Life is the reflection of consciousness. Change your consciousness and your life will change.

There is nothing sentimental about this world. Like the weather, this world asks only to be acknowledged. There is nothing comforting about it, and yet if you are afraid to see it in its own terms and look to it for comfort, for solace, you will be left worse off than you were before.

Hän katsoi jasmiinipensasta, jossa paljaat oksat olivat huolimattomasti sikin sokin, ja ajatteli kauhistuneena: Se on huollut. Koko maailma on kuollut minun nukkuessani. Tämä maailma kuuuluu jollekin toiselle, jota minä en tunne. Ehkä Mörölle. Tätä ei ole luotu muumipeikkojen asuinpaikaksi.

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

Me and my mum send most of our time on the phone discussing EastEnders: Grant and Tiffany; the prospect of Sharon returning to the square, perhaps with Michelle Fowler, both with babies, both fathered by Grant; the happy irony of Michelle and Sharon being truly related. We all slip into these unreal worlds as a release from the daily drudgery.

Strangely enough, you'll find the less sex a person has, the less they masturbate. I have a close friend who assures me she has only masturbated five times in her life. Of course, there is the theory that she doesn't have a vagina. Then again, I know for a fact that most of her daily life, including her work, is wrapped up in fantasy. Leaving her eyes crystal clear.

A mad desire to be more human, to be more normal, that's what pushes me, these days – but as someone said the other day. "Trace, you're going to have to face facts. You and normal, parted a long, long time ago.

The past does not exist -- except in the brain.

I don't think this city is ugly. And I don't believe in fairy tales.

When you accept that life does not turn out the way it "should," you are free to take actions that are not constrained by the need to control life so it turns out the way that it "should" (or, at the very least, to make sure life doesn't turn out the way it "shouldn't").

Ontology is that branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of reality and different ways of being.

For example, all human beings grow up believing that life should turn out one way or another. This drives you, as an individual, to constantly compare your current reality with the ideal in your mind of how life "should" turn out—which in turn affects a startling amount of what you do.

There is a way that things should he. And when they are that way, things are right. When they're not that way, there's something wrong with me (the interpreter of events), with them (other people), or with it (anything in the world).

Language is the only leverage for changing the context of the world around you. This is because people apprehend and construct reality through the way they speak and listen.

Life does not turn out the way it "should." Nor does life turn out the way it "shouldn't." Life turns out the way it does.

TRANSFORMATION is a function of altering the way you are being—to create something that is currently not possible in your reality.

Being As it pertains to transformation, the realm of possibility in which something exists, rather than an emotional or behavioral state. The way you are being at any given time determines what's possible.