Quotes About Reality

Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.

The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.

Our perception of reality is cultural & changing cultural views change reality.

There is just reality as it is: a unified being of infinite awareness that is playing with itself as an expression of itself. Everything and everyone in all places and times is merely God interacting with itself, and It is You.

The problem that is being addressed in this therapy is that the ego is mistaken for the self, when it is not

it is more properly understood as a masking of the self that is a constructed identity, a character. When the ego is too dominant, it prevents people from knowing their true identity and, as a result, interferes with an individual's ability to make informed and clear distinctions between authentic reality and contrived reality, and to act accordingly.

If you are actively believing in the reality of what you are seeing, you are caught in your ego.

The future was eventually all about what you had really done, not what you wished you had done.

you couldn't fight age, not really. If you had ten face-lifts and your whole body remodelled, you might look younger but you would still be fifty or sixty or whatever. Looking younger did not make you younger. Time passed, and the older you got the quicker it seemed to go.

Real life was not what everyone thought it was.

J.K. Rowling's and Terry Pratchett's. He liked to lose himself in fantasies where people always solved their problems, made sure that right was done and evil cast aside. If only life was that simple.

Whoever said that money made you happy was a liar. A dirty rotten stinking liar!

Just because you see something doesn't mean it's really there.

Reality is just this game people play together, something their brain decides on, and the minute their brain gets iffy about reality, they realize everything they know about the world is just their own made-up version of it, and that would mean everyone is walking around in their own made-up world, all alone, and reality is just something we invent together to make us feel not so alone. It scares people when some of us check out of the game.

Susie: Okay, Calvin. But you know what? You can't say, youcan'texpectanythingfrommeI'mbroken! And turn around the next minute and say, ohwoeismeeverybodytreatsmelikeI'mbroken! Which one is it? I can treat you the way I really feel, or I can treat you careful. Me: Real. Just be real.

I've figured out there's a difference between the meaning of the word 'real' and the meaning of the word 'true.

A los hombres siempre les ha gustado mucho reunirse y discutir, y hacer ver que toman decisiones consensuadas que van a convertir el planeta en un lugar mejor. Luego viene la realidad, y les derrota.

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking

Truth leads to Freedom, yet freedom does not necessarily lead to truth.

For whatever has no root has no fruit, and although thinking, "I have come into being," it will perish by itself. So whatever does not exist will never exist.

Jesus said, "When you see your likeness, you are happy. 2) But when you see your images that came into being before you and that neither die nor become visible, how much you will bear!

In this world there is good and evil, but the good of the world is not really good and the evil of the world is not really evil. After this world there is evil that is really evil: this is called the middle. The middle is death.

Since she did not know the truth, she assumed a fashioned figure and prepared, with power and in beauty, a substitute for truth.

She thought how sharp words could sting when they held the truth.