Quotes About Reality

If nothing around us has any genuine substance, then all the happiness or unhappiness we feel comes from our mind. All qualities, attractive and unattractive, are a product of mind alone.

the most powerful first impressions could mask a very different truth.

As I was discovering, even the most powerful first impressions could mask a very different truth.

The Buddhist definition of mind as 'a formless continuum of clarity and cognition' is very much in keeping with quantum science theories that matter and energy are two aspects of the same reality.

Whatever is on our mind, we project onto the world outside us.

We act upon assumptions that control our view of reality, even though reality might be quite different... By definition, what is unthinkable isn't part of our reality... your assumptions about what is possible prevent you from accurately seeing the reality before you.

Remember what I said about worlds," Nettie said, "and time. You have said it yourself – I heard it like a whisper on the wind. It is all dreams within dreams. That is the real secret. Time is not made up of one long string, but of layers.

The problem with telling people that they can do anything they want to do is that it is objectively, factually inaccurate. Otherwise the whole world would just be ballet dancers and pop stars.

Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die instead? It was unrealistic to expect a friendship to last forever…

She no longer think that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.

Travelling', she sighed.'So predictable.' 'What's wrong with travelling?' 'Avoiding reality more like.' 'I think reality is over-rated,' he said in the hope that this might come across as dark and charismatic.

There's a particular grubbiness that comes with travel. You start showered and fresh in clean and comfortable clothes, upbeat and hopeful that this will be like travel in the movies; sunlight flaring on the windows, heads resting on shoulders, laughter and smiles with a lightly jazzy soundtrack. But in reality the grubbiness has set in

I don't find it funny, I just think self-pity's probably not the answer.' 'It's not self-pity, it's the facts.' 'My life is effectively "over"?' 'I just mean. I don't know. Just….' He looked into the canal and gave a theatrical sigh. 'When I was younger everything seemed possible. Now nothing does.

I think reality is over-rated,' he said in the hope that this might come across as dark and charismatic.

I'd always been under the impression that we were together because we wanted to be together, and because we were happy most of the time. I'd thought that we loved each other. I'd thought … clearly I was mistaken, but I was looking forward to us growing old together. Me and you, growing old and dying together.' Connie turned to me, her head on the pillow, and said, 'Douglas, why would anyone in their right mind look forward to that?

And by the time the train pulls into the station, I find myself actually relieved that Emily's only a figment of my imagination.

Emma está cansada de gritar de entusiasmo al ver gatear a un bebé, como si lo de gatear fuese una novedad completamente inesperada. ¿Qué esperaban, que volase?

Though not my field, I was familiar with the notion of alternative realities, but was not used to occupying the one I liked the best.

He or she cannot clearly remember what happened when they were two, three, or four years of age. Worse, the reality of their developmental history has been clouded and denied by the effects of both the splitting and moral defenses. The result of this psychological conspiracy leaves one and only one recourse open for the victim: to unconsciously act out the same destructive pattern with the next generation of child-victims.

Only psychologically mature young adults can tolerate the reality that their parents failed them in certain areas, because their maturity frees them from needing false but comforting illusions about their parents. That is, their identity is firm enough to allow them to stand on their own without needing the support of their parents.

Often, these fantasies are barely based on reality and no longer involve an emotional attachment to others, since these young adults were so deeply disappointed in their parents. In effect, the young adult has given up hope of emotional support from the human community and has substituted grandiose fantasies of unlimited power or fame.

The reality is that not every place claiming to be a church is part of the church universal, that many churches fail their calling. This fact forces us toward something like the old distinction between the churches that we see (the church visible) and the church that Jesus recognizes as his people (the church invisible). We may not be able to find Christ's people where we thought to look. But I am convinced that we can find them.

Wherever the truth lies, in order to eliminate flicker, the rotating shutter within the projector has to allow each image to be flashed upon the screen twice. Thus, whenever we watch a movie, we spend half the time gazing at an optical illusion and the other half sitting in the dark in front of a blank screen.

The things I saw and things I missed- The many, many bloody things I fucking missed- It's just another morning; another morning when I wish I wasn't here.