Quotes About Reality

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

And there's the fallacy of existence: the idea that one could be happy forever and age with a given situation or series of accomplishments.

Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

One truth doesn't refute another. Truth doesn't lie in the object, but in how we see it.

George, she says it's the truth that matters. We live and die for the chance to maybe tell a little bit of the truth, maybe shame the Devil just a little bit before we go.

Behold the power of the truth. When people see its shadow on the wall, they don't want to take the time to look away.

She told the truth as she saw it, and she died for it. I came along for the ride, and I lived. It wasn't worth it. But it was the truth, and it was what had to happen.

... fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.

If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful.

Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist.

Well, what is God, then? God is that which watches. God is neither masculine nor feminine, although God can assume any form. God is that eternal reality that is in everything.

Life is an endless matrix of existence. And as you experience it in that pure form, that's what we call enlightenment.

Most successful people find out that the attainment of their goals doesn't necessarily bring them the happiness and joy they assumed; their happiness is short-lived.

I've lived in worlds where there are three or four suns. We had incredible sunsets, beautiful. But they weren't more beautiful than here, if my mind is more beautiful in each life.

What is perfection anyway in the physical? It is an idea we have. When it doesn't happen we get all bent out of shape and frustrated and angry and then unhappy, we take it out on everybody.

Get real. Life is heavy. It's difficult. It's complex...even for the wise.

The world appears solid to most people. It is filled with their pain, their desires, their private ecstasies, their expectations. They are that world - nothing glows.

You are not what you seem to be. You are one of God's endless dreams in search of wakefulness. Meditation is wakefulness.

Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it then the picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone.

No one is guaranteed a job in this.

Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.

I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.