Quotes About Reality

Don't take anything Personally Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering

What you are seeing and hearing right now is nothing but a dream. You are dreaming right now in this moment. You are dreaming with the brain awake.

Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream.

Svemir je jednostavan, onakav kakav jest ili onakav kakav nije, ali ljudska bi?a sve kompliciraju.

The only way to store information is by agreement. The outside dream may hook our attention, but if we don't agree, we don't store that information. As soon as we agree, we believe it, and this is called faith. To have faith is to believe unconditionally.

The Truth is that you have no idea what you really are but you know what you are not

Nu lua nimic personal. Nimic din ceea ce fac alÈ›ii nu este din cauza ta. Ceea ce alÈ›ii spun È™i fac este o proiecÈ›ie a propriei lor realit??i, a propriului lor vis. Când eÈ™ti imun la opiniile È™i acÈ›iunile altora, nu vei fi victima suferinÈ›ei inutile.

Como observa el satírico James Branch Cabell, «los optimistas dicen que vivimos en el mejor de los mundos posibles; los pesimistas temen que sea verdad».528

What appears good in principle can sometimes fail when introduced to the world. Sometimes, bad products succeed and good products fail. The world is complex.

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.

In the absence of external information, people can let their imagination run free as long as the conceptual models they develop account for the facts as they perceive them. As

In the absence of external information, people can let their imagination run free as long as the conceptual models they develop account for the facts as they perceive them.

You are designing for people the way you would like them to be, not for the way they really are." When

You may not be interested in absurdity, she said firmly, but absurdity is interested in you.

It is a curiosity of writing about angels that, very often, one turns out to be writing about men.

It is possible of course that there are no more real men here, on his ball of half-truths, the earth.

There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one mind to know another, and how it is possible to know the contents of our own minds without resort to observation or evidence. It is a mistake, I shall urge, to suppose that these questions can be collapsed into two, or taken into isolation.

We are all dying of something, always, but our degrees of awareness differ - from Tubes

Life is hell but death is worse. - from No Deposit

As human beings we perceive rubber handles, popping corks, crème centers, lavender lotion, and autumn leaves as real. But just as solid to us are snotty attitudes, inconvenient lust, spade flushes, political lies, steely beauty, hometown support, big-city zeal, coffee intoxication, bizarre fashion moments, cell-phone lobotomies, road rage, pathetic dreams, and a thousand other things that aren't corporeal. To

It comforts me to think that if we are created beings the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much greater, in fact, that we would not be able to understand it. It would have to be greater than the facts of our reality and so it would seem to us, looking out from within our reality that it would contradict reason. But reason itself would suggest it would have to be greater than reality or it would not be reasonable.

We live on top of the created world, I think to myself, not in it.

I DON'T KNOW WHY IT IS, EXACTLY, BUT THE PEOPLE with the healthiest self-esteem are also the greatest at intimacy. I'm not talking about arrogant people. I'm talking about people who know they are both good and bad yet believe at the deepest level they are really good for people. It's a beautiful moment when somebody wakes up to this reality, when they realize God created them so other people could enjoy them, not just endure them.

a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.