Quotes About Reality

Paradise was always over there, a day's sail away. But it's a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.

It is an unfortunate reality for innate idlers that our modern world requires one to hold a job to maintain a sustainable existence. Idling, I find, if immensely underrated, even vilified by some who see inactivity as the gateway for the Evil One.

Ideas about our own self-worth are no more real than thoughts about an imaginary chair.

And so we create a story—a "drama about me"—that may gradually wander far away from the here and now and far away from the way things actually are. Once the script we have concocted for ourselves has been set in the mind, we may unwittingly rely on it as a reference point for all present and future judgments—without ever checking back with the here and now. Without knowing it, our thoughts become words carved in stone rather than words written on water.

Mindful awareness—or mindfulness—spontaneously arises out of this Being mode when we learn to pay attention, on purpose, in the present moment, without judgment, to things as they actually are.

Mindful awareness – or mindfulness – spontaneously arises out of this Being mode when we learn to pay attention, on purpose, in the present moment, without judgment, to things as they actually are. In mindfulness, we start to see the world as it is, not as we expect it to be, how we want it to be, or what we fear it might become.

Mindfulness teaches us that thoughts are just thoughts; they are events in the mind. They are often valuable but they are not 'you' or 'reality'.

Mindfulness teaches us that thoughts are just thoughts; they are events in the mind. They are often valuable but they are not "you" or "reality." They are your internal running commentary on yourself and the world

In mindfulness, we start to see the world as it is, not as we expect it to be, how we want it to be, or what we fear it might become

Mindfulness meditation teaches you to recognize memories and damaging thoughts as they arise. It reminds you that they are memories. They are like propaganda, they are not real. They are not you.

His current theory is that Sutton lived three separate lives. The one he remembered, the one he told people about, the one that really happened.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

Being wealthy might seem to be "supremely enviable," he wrote, but "the business of wealth-getting, and of wealth-enjoyment, when viewed at close range, turns out to be a very different matter.

Before one studies Zen, mountains are mountains and waters are waters; after a first glimpse into the truth of Zen, mountains are no longer mountains and waters are no longer waters; after enlightenment, mountains are once again mountains and waters once again waters.

Faith is the belief in the invisible. It would be a dull world, indeed, if only the visible were reality.

For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality

Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.

No not really, it is just like real life. Not everyday you are happy and not everyday you are sad.

How amazing that you can think you are experiencing a profound happening, almost like a miracle--and then you realize that you just made it that way in you mind

Because all the brilliant ones- they can sing it and they can paint it, but they can't do it. You can't expect them to love you.

Every appearance or sound is like an illusion, mirage, or reflection; It is substance without the mark of reality. The mind that perceives such illusion is like space.

Earth, water, fire, air, and space are not distinct from the flavor of their innate coemergence. He who does not bifurcate nirv??a and sa?s?ra is stated to [adhere to] the abiding nature of all encompassing reality.

All appearances and sound vibrations are like an illusion, a mirage, or a reflection; They are substances without the marks of reality. The mind that cognizes illusion is also like space; Without center or boundary, it is beyond intellectual conception.