Quotes About Reality

You can't change a tiger by whitewashing its stripes.

Did you see these buildings turn to dust or do you 'believe' they collapsed because you were told that they collapsed? Whoever controls the energy controls the people. But whoever controls their perception controls everything.17 – Eric Larsen

When their feelings don't fit the facts, they may unconsciously revise the facts to fit their feelings. This may be one reason why their perception of events is different from yours.

Once you begin to accept that a mentally ill person will sometimes behave irrationally, you alleviate some of your own internal stress and strain… [O]nce you do so you can begin to develop more effective coping mechanisms. No longer burdened by the "what-ifs" and "shoulds" in your mind, you can deal with the way things really are. And you seek out what works.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.

Only if God IS ultimate reality, can he be our unconditional concern; only then can he be the object of surrender, obedience, and assent. Faith in anything which has only preliminary reality is idolatrous.

Neither the Ten Commandments nor the great commandment is revelatory if separated from the divine covenant with Israel or from the presence of the Kingdom of God in the Christ. These commandments were meant and should be taken as interpretations of a new reality, not as orders directed against the old reality. They are descriptions and not laws. ~ vol. 1, p.125

Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.

The question our century puts before us is: is it possible to regain the lost dimension, the encounter with the Holy, the dimension which cuts through the world of subjectivity and objectivity and goes down to that which is not world but is the Mystery of the Ground of Being.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

Everything simple is false. Everything complex is unusable.

My hand feels touched as well as it touches; reality says this, and nothing more.

Anxious to know, yet only too happy to ignore, we seek in what is, a remedy for what is not; and in what is not a relief from what is. Now the real, now illusion is our refuge; and the soul has finally no other resource but the true, which is her weapon -- and falsehood, which is her armor.

Life blackens at the contact of truth.

It is only by chance that we are reminded of the permanent circumstances of our life.

As for the world, all reality has no other excuse for existence except to offer the poet the chance to play a sublime match against it -- a match that is list in advance.

Kimi zaman penceredeki manzara, duvara as?lm?? bir tablodur yaln?zca; kimi zaman oda, orada olmam? de?il, bütünü görmemi engelleyen, a?açlar aras?nda bir kabuktan ba?ka bir ?ey de?ildir.

Sentimentul de a fi tot si evidenta de a nu fi nimic.

Il y a des personnages qui sentent que leurs sens les séparent du réel, de l'être. Ce sens en eux infecte les autres sens.

Der Mensch lebt und stirbt in dem, was er sieht, aber er sieht nur was er träumt.

Svojstva tela su utoliko manje poznata ukoliko su stalnija. Što su više kao odvojiva od tela, ili promenjiva, više ih hvatamo. Toplina nam je pristupa?nija nego težina.

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.