Quotes About Reality

Experience as much as you can and absorb a lot of reality. Otherwise, your writing will have the force of a Wiffle ball.

The experience of the individual has become the experience of the people, thanks solely to the camera.

We live almost completely immersed in a socially constructed reality that so fully absorbs our energy and attention that virtually none remains to experience the wonder of our existence.

When you start to try to understand everything in terms of words, the understanding of the words becomes the experience, and the experience gets lost.

Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That's all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.

And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean.

Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones.

In reality, our mind is the creator of all the things we experience.

What you believe you experience.

In the experience of yogins who do not perceive things dualistically, the fact that things manifest without truly existing is so amazing they burst into laughter

The universe is contained within us, and what we experience externally is only a reflection.

The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience.

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

The only real experience that counts, is your own.

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgement of the power of the mind to transform, to notice, to decide what experience shall mean.

Going to a junkyard is a sobering experience. There you can see the ultimate destination of almost everything we desired.

The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.