Quotes About Reality

A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.

What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion

The only truths we can point to are the ever-changing truths of our own experience.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

In dream consciousness we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.

The question of naturalism is a fallacy, it does not exist... The photographic image replaces naturalistic experience.

Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.

I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.

Belief conditions experience, and experience then strengthens belief.

My job is to portray real human beings and real human experiences, and if I haven't had a real human experience myself outside of the film industry, how am I going to be able to do that?

Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.

For how do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when awake, since the former are often not less vivid and distinct than the latter?

Writers . . . write to give reality to experience.

As a performer, I'm constantly fascinated with the idea of being able to know what anybody else's experience is, and how misleading all informatives, like appearance, can be.

We experience a body experiencing an outer world. But really, the experience of the outer world, as well as the experience of the body, are not happening in two different places.

One of the cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience.

Experience is mad when it steps beyond the horizons of our common, that is, our communal sense.

Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis.

...the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.

The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.

We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.

You take the senses away, and there is no consciousness. Consciousness comes from experience.

What you experience as "reality," including your physical body and aging, is shaped by your habits of perception.

The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment.