Quotes About Reality

About Jesus as the point at which—exactly as the martyr Stephen had claimed—heaven and earth were now held together, fused together; it was about Jesus as being, in person, the reality toward which the Temple itself had pointed.

Heaven and earth are not to be split apart; they are to be brought together; and the spirit is the sign and means in the present by which that future becomes real in advance. The spirit is the powerful breath of that new creation, bringing signs and foretastes of the heaven-and-earth reality to birth here and now.

We could cope—the world could cope—with a Jesus who ultimately remains a wonderful idea inside his disciples' minds and hearts. The world cannot cope with a Jesus who comes out of the tomb, who inaugurates God's new creation right in the middle of the old one.

When we begin to glimpse the reality of God, the natural reaction is to worship him. Not to have that reaction is a fairly sure sign that we haven't yet really understood who he is or what he's done.

I am not, I will not be. I have not, I will not have. This frightens all children, And kills fear in the wise.

Without recourse to the conventional The ultimate cannot be shown

All the dogmatists have been terrified by the lion's roar of shunyata. Wherever they may reside, shunyata lies in wait! Nagarjuna: Master of Wisdom: Writitngs of the Buddhist Mastar Nagarjuna

To whomever emptiness is possible, All things are possible.

Entities do not exist In their causes, in their conditions In aggregations of many things, or in individual things Therefore, all entities are empty.

Porque todo es vacuidad, todo puede ser.

Inasmuch a real mover does not move, and a non-mover does not move, apart from a mover and a non-mover, what third thing could move?

I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.

A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it.

How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence. It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.

Just as it is known That an image of one's face is seen Depending on a mirror But does not really exist as a face, So the conception of "I" exists Dependent on mind and body, But like the image of a face The "I" does not at all exist as its own reality.

All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.

All philosophies are mental fabrications.

Nothing's ever gone. We fool ourselves that things fade, but they never do.

Yes." She smiled, liking the word. "What I feel like right now—I'd compare it to waking from a dream and seeing the real world. It's a beautiful place, but it also has darkness. If you try to eradicate that darkness, you also destroy the light." Pain for the future of her people tightened her heart.

Are you sane, Mother? Laughter in his mind, painful in its familiarity. Is any immortal every truly sane?

You're so cute when you're deluding yourself.

The dark existed whether you looked at it or not.

Pain is the best indicator of whether something is an illusion or reality." -Kaleb

You folk are so finicky about time, living it in straight lines like that.