Quotes About Reality

If she loved she acted in love, if she was betrayed she was destroyed. These were the shining and dangerous facts of the life of an innocent.

It was innocents who died, not those born with the strength of no illusions.

if a good sign is so important you can just as soon make one up and fool yourself that way.

I have such faith in words that when I read about such families as a child, I thought that they were the norm and that the way I lived was subnormal, waiting for normal.

um desejo de voltar para casa, onde podemos continuar com a ilusão de que é a vida diária, e não a morte, a condição permanente.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?

Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep.

Perfect Tommy: Pictures don't lie. Reno: The hell they don't. I met my first wife that way

Wherever you go, there you are.. (Buckaroo Banzai)

Wherever you go, there you are.

No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things

clearly to be that of human subjectivity, which has nothing with which to challenge the given situation because it is itself a part or a product of the given situation. No new reality can be generated out of the present reality. Even what we call revolutionary is a product of the old world. 1 7

the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.

All problems are illusions of the mind.

Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn't very much.

every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.

Life isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be.

Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called God. As soon as you turn away from it, God ceases to be a reality in your life, and all you are left with is the mental concept of God, which some people believe in and others deny. Even belief in God is only a poor substitute for the living reality of God manifesting every moment of your life.

The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality

The brain does not create consciousness, but conciousness created the brain, the most complex physical form on earth, for its expression.

Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn't very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by the vocal cords. They are the vowels a, e, i, o, u. The other sounds are consonants produced by air pressure: s, f, g, and so forth. Do you believe some combination of such basic sounds could ever explain who you are, or the ultimate purpose of the universe, or even what a tree or stone is in its depth?

Whenever you are immersed in compulsive thinking, you are avoiding what is. You don't want to be where you are. Here, Now.

This is most people's reality: As soon as something is perceived, it is named, interpreted, compared with something else, liked, disliked, or called good or bad by the phantom self, the ego.