Quotes About Reality

Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.

You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the truth is fantastic; it's in what you think is a distorting mirror that you see the truth.

Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living.

that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.

Art's only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality

Hell--or Heaven--is here, now, inside.

The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.

Obviously, insights gained from gnosis are rarely welcomed as topics of conversation at social gatherings. To break the silence and speak about what you know to be your spiritual reality, or tell another about a numinous experience or your philosophical insights or take up a religious vocation becomes possible for many women only when they are over fifty and have found friends with spiritual depth.

You may find a myth that will evoke the reality in you

I have always thought of a myth as something that never was, but is always happening

She had expected rich chandeliers, not these morose and fungoid lamps, and the carpet was not dense and darkly red, but was thin, and it bore upon its lugubrious puce background a vapid pattern of flaxen parallelograms.

Instead of being distressed by the huge moral discrepancy between the myth of Hollywood and its current reality, most of them only saw what already had been fixed in their minds. It was absolutely eerie and sent me right back to The Day of the Locust. The point that Nathanael West made, of course, is that the masses ultimately want to kill and devour, to cannibalize their celebrity gods.

You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to be. But what if it didn't? What if you had to stay you forever?

Somehow, television made behavior that you would go out of your way to avoid in real life into something fascinating.

Her mother chose to martyr herself to some domestic goddess routine that everybody else in the world had wised up to long ago.

general public distrusts academic expertise as soon as it affects real-world topics

You could never be sure, at any given moment, whether she was inhabiting her own private fantasy land—which she seemed to do most of the time—or whether she was on one of her flying visits to what passed for reality.

Don't you ever read any of the books about women who enjoyed it?' he said. 'Enjoyed being raped?' 'Enjoyed the company of men.' 'Oh! Well, some of them say they did.' 'So why would they say it if it wasn't true?' For a moment that stumped her. 'I just can't imagine it,' she said, 'that's all.

People seem to forget that there is a huge difference between the peace which is a gift of God and passes all understanding, and peace in the psychological sense. If we are living in a dream or illusion, or have certain psychological blocks, we should not be surprised that we become troubled when someone brings us face-to-face with reality. Sometimes we have to lose psychological peace before we can live in true peace.

have learned that the process of teaching and learning, of communication, involves movement, back and forth: the one who is healed and the one who is healing constantly change places. As we begin to understand ourselves, we begin to understand others. It is part of the process of moving from idealism to reality, from the sky to the earth. We do not have to be perfect or to deny our emotions.

Freedom lies in discovering that the truth is not a set of fixed certitudes but a mystery we enter into, one step at a time. It is a process of going deeper and deeper into an unfathomable reality.

présent, la version des événements sans jamais pouvoir affirmer que celle-ci est définitive.

I did not then know that the world is often plainer than people imagine and that the truth, no matter how banal, is always alive and glowing.

An diesem Abend drehte sich das Gespräch um die unendlichen, glorreichen, immensen Perspektiven der neuen Kommunikationsformen und insbesondere des Internet. Charles war nicht damit einverstanden: Hinter dem technischen Flitterwerk, sagte er, lauere eine neue Art der Entfremdung, die nur zu noch größerem Konsumverhalten und weiterem Verlust an Realitätsbewusstsein und menschlichen Werten beitragen werde.