Quotes About Reality

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

Build and they will come' is not a strategy, it's a prayer.

Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view.

Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

If he really wanted to make it a prayer for peace he should have listened to both sides of the story and reflected reality, rather than serving the Zionist side alone.

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.

It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.

Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.

The journey of prayer is nothing more or less than a gradual awakening to the reality of recognizing what is already there.

What men usually ask of God when they pray is that two and two not make four.

Look as a painted man is no man and as painted fire is no fire so a cold prayer is no prayer.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.

The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any family falls short of this ideal.

There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be.

People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

Love is supposed to bring you peace and happiness. If you are not feeling this in a relationship, you are living an illusion.

I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.

For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things.

I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true

To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as they are.

The brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what the eye sees, but in return the eye has agreed to look for what the brain wants.

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.