Quotes About Reality

Increase and widen your desires until nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness and smallness. Desire is devotion. By all means, be devoted to the real, the infinite, the eternal heart of being. Transform desire into love. All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well.

Trace your misunderstandings and abandon them, that is all. There is nothing to seek or find, for there is nothing lost. Relax and watch the "I am." Reality is just behind it. Keep quiet, keep silent; it will emerge or, rather, it will take you in.

Matter is the shape, mind is the name. Together they make the world. Pervading and transcending is Reality, pure being/awareness/bliss, your very essence.

S?owa tworz? ?wiaty. Rzeczywisto?? jest cisz?.

Without my sense of being, what is the value of the world?

prior to consciousness,

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Life is glorious, but it can be counted on to be cruel.

We choose our reality, you see, just as we choose our god.

Perhaps the Enlightenment itself was a psychotic break. The belief that all things could be measured

In the absence of facts, we tell ourselves stories.

In the absence of facts, he thinks, we tell ourselves stories.

Since when does how a thing looks matter more than what it is?

It is the job of the human brain to assemble all the input of our world—sights, sounds, smells—into a coherent narrative. This is what memory is, a carefully calibrated story that we make up about our past. But what happens when those details crumble?

It is the job of the human brain to assemble all the input of our world--sights, sounds, smells--into coherent narrative. This is what memory is, a carefully calibrated story that we make up about our past. But what happens when those details crumble? Hailstones on a tin roof....What happens when your life can't be translated into a linear narrative?

I believe the world lives on the edge between magic and science," he says finally. "And that it tips back and forth, depending on what we believe.

You confuse our higher and lower functions, harnessing our drives and motivating us down an unnatural path, one in which human beings are reprogrammed to covet products and ignore reality.

Sitting in the back of a cab, Scott pictures the boy eating cereal in front of the tv late at night - unable to sleep - watching a dog drawn from letters d-o-g talk to a cat drawn from the letters c-a-t. If only real life were that simple, where everyone we met and every place we went was fashioned from the pure essence of its identity. Where you looked at a man and saw the letters f-r-i-e-n-d, and looked at a woman and saw the word w-i-f-e.

He just needed to hear his voice from time to time to remind himself that he was real.

Recovery is also the ability to inhabit the conditions of the present reality, whether pleasant or unpleasant.

Those who understand the way it is, rather than the way they wish it were, are on the path to freedom.

We come to understand the law of casuality - that is, we see that all beings are experiencing what they're experiencing based on their own actions and not by what we wish for them - and therefore we relax in a deep understanding and acceptance of the way things are.

Dream your dreams, but when you act, plant your feet firmly on the ground.

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