Quotes About Reality

when the daily reality presents itself as uncomprehendable, we fashion our own myths and then hold those phony truths to be inalienable.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

My interior world does not correspond to the real world.

veces nos da miedo enfrentarnos con la realidad de nuestra alma. Decía Goethe: «¿Conocerme a mí mismo? Si lo hiciera, saldría corriendo espantado».

diseases of an unromantic sort,

That image—last night's dream—made me think of the quote I had taped to the top of my screen, Professor Madison paraphrasing Mark Twain. There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and prophecy.

Mine udgydelser i notesbogen bestod af brudstykker af mit liv, som jeg arrangerede efter forgodtbefindende, jeg lod mig føre hvor som helst hen, jeg gennemlevede øjeblikke, som jeg aldrig havde oplevet i virkeligheden, men som jeg fantaserede mig til, jeg sad ikke i sandhedens gabestok som henne hos lægen.

Jeg havde lyst til at sige til dem: 'Nej, jeg er ikke tosset og har aldrig været det. Eller måske er jeg tosset, men så er i det også.

My aim throughout is to let facts speak for themselves. If they seem strange, unreal, even impossible, I can only say that the things of the invisible world must always appear so to those whose thoughts and desires are centred on this life only.

In short, here's what making is-ness your business means: engage in your life with enthusiasm exactly as it is, regardless of your likes and dislikes, your preferences, ideas, beliefs, and opinions about how things should be or could be. Unconditionally allow things to be the way they are. When you deal with what is, or your is-ness, you can then choose who you'd like to be in relationship to that.

Make is-ness your business and meet life as it shows up—not as you prefer it to show up.

here's what making is-ness your business means: engage in your life with enthusiasm exactly as it is, regardless of your likes and dislikes, your preferences, ideas, beliefs, and opinions about how things should be or could be.

Our minds are what give us the power to manufacture reality, both for ourselves and others. That's because . . .

The fact that your beliefs shape your reality is undeniable. They affect you physically, emotionally, spiritually, financially, intellectually, and culturally.

If I stopped dyeing my hair everyone would know that my golden hair is actually gray, and my long American youth would be over—and then what?

The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.

It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real.

One has to consider what effect it would have on one to have to accept the fact that God was not the friendly guardian of kindergarten!

It's horrifying for kids to be able to see and feel more than the people who are caring for them," his social worker explains. "They can't accept the lies. It makes them feel crazy because they literally have to invalidate their own perceptions.

Children who are blamed for their own abuse also have great difficulty trusting their perceptions. "When adults say 'It didn't happen,' or 'You wanted it'—those kinds of comments really eat away at a kid's sense of reality," says psychologist David Frankel. "Cutting grounds you; the pain is real. In that light, self-mutilation can be an effort to avoid a state of disorganization where you don't know what reality is.

There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had.

When I was in love with her, with a lover's tendency to mythify the beloved did I know her better than I do now, when we know our limits? Now

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.