Quotes About Reality

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.

Your such a cynic. Exactly, that's what you call a guy who tells you the truth.

The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness." .

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

We cannot tell that we are constantly splitting into duplicate selves because our consciousness rides smoothly along only one path in the endlessly forking chains

Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature.

Dying is all about letting go and letting be, as is the awareness of God. People who have traveled far along the contemplative path are often aware that the sense of separation from God is itself pasted up out of a mass of thoughts and feelings. When the mind comes into its own stillness and enters the silent land, the sense of separation goes. Union is seen to be the fundamental reality and separateness a highly filtered mental perception.

In this depthless depth we are caught up in a unity that grounds, affirms, and embraces all diversity. Communion with God and communion with others are realizations of the same Center. And this Center, according to the ancient definition, is everywhere. "God is that reality whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.

for all the valuable insights big data provides, the Web remains a curated, idealized version of who we really are.

sponsors are letting us know that it's futile to hide, duck,

A symbol is not something arbitrarily chosen by man to illustrate a higher reality; it does so precisely because it is rooted in that reality, which has projected it, like a shadow or a reflection, onto the plane of earth.

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.

a quite novel kind of grammar and logic, according to which what is something is nothing

He who does not fear the truth should fear a lie and should worship an image or a phantom as God.

La realidad de la situación del hombre —su efectiva carencia de libertad— le está oculta a éste mientras no conozca a Aquel en quien llega a entender y captar simultáneamente su propia realidad y la de Dios, su perdida condición y la misericordia divina, esas dos realidades que el hombre sólo puede comprender en uno y el mismo momento —o nunca.

We do not then reject good works; nay, we embrace them and teach them in the highest degree. It is not on their own account that we condemn them, but on account of this impious addition to them and the perverse notion of seeking justification by them. These things cause them to be only good in outward show, but in reality not good, since by them men are deceived and deceive others, like ravening wolves in sheep's clothing.

21. A theologian of glory calls evil good and good evil. A theologian of the cross calls a thing what it actually is.

I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

Seeing is not always believing.

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

Essere desiderati non è semplice. Non bisogna farsi illusioni: non siamo mai noi a essere desiderati, ma quello che l'altro immagina di noi e, spesso, quello che potrà servirgli a giustificare le proprie scelte esistenziali.

A? fi lini?tit dac? a? fi nebun, lumea ar avea mai mult sens.

C'est ce que je veux, je veux d'autres tourments, des maux réels, des manifestations physiques d'un comportement précis. La cause de mon mal sera l'alcool ; pas la vérité, l'alcool. Je préfère une maladie qui tient dans les limites d'une bouteille plutôt qu'une maladie immatérielle et toute-puissante sur laquelle je ne peux pas mettre de nom ("Comment je suis devenu stupide", p37)

But don't you see," I exclaimed. "Everything is synchronicity. Nothing happens by chance." As I said these words in my dream, a tremendous energy flooded my brain and shocked me awake, forcing me to consider this intuitive answer. What if it were true? What if, moment by moment, we create our own realities through our consciousness?