Quotes About Reality

To say that I am organized is an understatement, but my car tells a different story.

We have had two chickens in every pot, two cars in every garage, and now we have two headaches for every aspirin.

You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car.

How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards.

In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.

I would like my car to fly and make me breakfast, but that's an unrealistic expectation.

At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.

It's harder that in looks," I told him when I finally got back in the car. "Most things are.

behold The approach of him whom none believes, Whom all believe that all believe, A pagan in a varnished car.

He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.

But i was high, when i finally had the chance to see, everything thats pretty aint' always good for me.

There isn't any hell or heaven except for how we relate to our world. Hell is just resistance to life.

More simply, regard everything as a dream. Life is a dream. Death is also a dream, for that matter; waking is a dream and sleeping is a dream. Another way to put this is, "Every situation is a passing memory.

When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity to love and care about other people and your capacity to not be afraid.

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth. If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then our experience becomes very vivid. Things become very clear when there is nowhere to escape.

we cannot be in the present and run our story lines at the same time!

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.

That's what we're going to discover again and again and again. Nothing is what we thought.

The Facts of Life: Impermanence

BY WEAVING our opinions, prejudices, strategies, and emotions into a solid reality, we try to make a big deal out of ourselves, out of our pain, out of our problems. But things are not as solid, predictable, or seamless as they seem.

Because we mistake what is impermanent to be permanent

suffering is inevitable for human beings as long as we believe that things last—that they don't disintegrate, that they can be counted on to satisfy our hunger for security.

many of our mood swings are related to how we interpret what happens. If we look closely at our mood swings, we'll notice that something always sets them off. We carry around a subjective reality that is continually triggering our emotional reactions.

No lasting happiness comes from being caught in this cycle of attraction and aversion. We can never get life to work out so that we eliminate everything we fear and end up with all the goodies. Therefore the warrior-bodhisattva cultivates equanimity, the vast mind that doesn't narrow reality into for and against, liking and disliking.