Quotes About Reality

Trungpa Rinpoche once said that the dharma has to be experienced because when the real quality of our lives, including the obstacles and problems and experiences that cause us to start questioning, becomes intense, any mere philosophical belief isn't going to hold a candle to the reality of what we are experiencing.

We seem doomed to suffer simply because we have a deep-seated fear of how things really are.

In any case, the point is not to try to get rid of thoughts, but rather to see their true nature. Thoughts will run us around in circles if we buy into them, but really they are like dream images. They are like an illusion—not really all that solid. They are, as we say, just thinking.

Sabemos que todo es impermanente, que todo acaba agotándose. Aunque aceptemos esta verdad con el intelecto, emocionalmente nos produce una profunda aversión. Deseamos que todo sea permanente y esperamos que así sea. Nuestra tendencia natural es buscar seguridad, creer que podemos encontrarla.

False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.

But a person can only keep reality - and anger - at bay for so long before the truth comes back again.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.

Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument.

It's not fair. It's not fair," she cried, knowing it was a child's argument but not caring, because being childish did not make it untrue.

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

Geese are white, crows are black. No argument will change this.

When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter " And proved it - 'twas no matter what he said.

The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.

abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

However fake the subject, once photographed, it's as good as real.

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.

I like photography because it is a reality medium, unlike drawing which is unreal. I like to mess with reality...to bend reality. Some of my works beg the question of is it real or not?

When you teach her that hoe mentality, they accept that as reality.

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.