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Quotes About Reality

Sabiduría Sufian dijo: "La sabiduría que es invisible pero que sustenta es cien veces mejor que la apariencia de sabiduría, porque ésta tiene que ser sostenida.
~ Idries Shah
If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth…
~ Idries Shah
Quienquiera que perfume a un escorpión no por ello escapará a su aguijonazo. Bahaudin Naqshband
~ Idries Shah
Formerly,' according to the Sheikh Abu el-Hasan Fushanji, 'being a Sufi was a reality without a name. Today it is a name without a reality.
~ Idries Shah
La imaginación del sabio es más verdadera que el conocimiento de los tontos.
~ Idries Shah
Truth is what you can learn, not what you think you must learn. It is what is there, not what you want to be there.
~ Idries Shah
La verdad es lo que puedes aprender, no lo que crees que debes aprender. Es lo que está allí, no lo que quieres que esté allí.
~ Idries Shah
Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's? A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room.
~ Idries Shah
Pensó que al menos tenían un plan. Aunque todo el mundo tenía uno. Hasta que le caía la primera hostia.
~ Unknown
Hay realidades que son infinitamente más difíciles de aceptar que la muerte.
~ Unknown
I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
~ Igor Stravinsky
One lives by memory . . . and not by truth.
~ Igor Stravinsky
I live neither in the past nor in the future. I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
~ Igor Stravinsky
why is it all so beautiful this fake dream this craziness why?
~ Ikkyu
this boat is and is not when it sinks both disappear
~ Ikkyu
don't worry please please how many times do I have to say it there's no way not to be who you are and where.
~ Ikkyu
Dreams are reality that has not become true. However, in the hearts of some people, they have already come true. People whose dreams are already achieved in their hearts, and who can see that as they boldly throw themselves into it, have true courage.
~ Ilchi Lee
The common factor in all our experiences is wakeful consciousness which turns what happens into an experience or a meaningful reality.
~ Ilchi Lee
Recalibration comes from experiencing Nothingness, opening our awareness to emptyness as the ultimate reality and our essential nature.
~ Ilchi Lee
As a phenomenon, life has a beginning and ending, but life itself doesn't. So, which one is truly me - a phenomenon that lasts only between birth and death, or life itself that underlies all phenomena?
~ Ilchi Lee
In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there; and in that lies not liberation but alienation, the cutting off of things as they really are.
~ Unknown
We make such plans for our lives, she thinks, and this is the way they turn out, nothing like what we imagine.
~ Colin Falconer
Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.
~ Colin Hay
Dreyfus once wrote from Devil's Island that he would see the most glorious birds. Many years later in Brittany he realized they had only been seagulls... For me they will always be glorious birds.
~ Unknown