Quotes About Reality

Descoperea aceast? sl?biciune, îi era ciud? pe ea îns??i, dar nu p?rea s?-i reziste. Dragostea se hr?nea aÈ™adar din aceste himere, sentimentul acesta putea fi atât de impur? Uneori avea impresia c? era o juc?rie, juc?ria iluziilor ei sau juc?ria acelei fete care alterna tristeÈ›ea cu batjocura, cinismul cu naivitatea.

Why, if its going to be allright, do we see it getting worse every day?

There is sadness and evil in the world, yes. There is also goodness and beauty and justice. The one is as real as the other, and we must keep that fact firmly in mind or lose all sense of proportion.

Death can do that, make reality as hard to hold on to as water dripping through your fingers.

I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.

We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa Clause myth and got nothing but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. 'Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten,' Dad said, ' you'll still have your stars.

You are -- your life, and nothing else.

She misunderstood my method, in my opinion, not realizing that my approach, rather obscure to those unfamiliar, was based on the idea that in my struggle with reality, I could exhaust any opponent with whom I was grappling, like one can wear out an olive, for example, before successfully stabbing it with a fork, and that my propensity not to hasten matters, far from having a negative effect, in fact prepared for me a fertile ground where, when things seemed ripe, I could make my move with ease.

For where books, for instance, always offer a thousand times more than they are, television offers exactly what it is, its essential immediacy, its ever-evolving, always-in-progress superficiality.

omdat ze niet begreep dat ik met mijn benaderingswijze, die op het oog nogal ondoorzichtig was, in zekere zin beoogde de realiteit waarmee ik werd geconfronteerd murw te maken, zoals men er pas in slaagt bij voorbeeld een olijf aan zijn vork te prikken als men haar eerst murw heeft gemaakt, en dat mijn neiging nooit iets te forceren niet nadelig voor me was maar in werkelijkheid juist het terrein voor me effende waar ik, als de dingen me rijp leken, zou kunnen scoren.

ours is a world about which we pretend to have more and more information but which seems to us increasingly devoid of meaning.

The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146)

Just because something is unbelievable does not mean you shouldn't believe it. Put another way, some things are worth believing in whether they're true or not.

Maybe the meaning of your life is what your life means to you now. It's hard to understand that time doesn't exist because we have such a clear experience of past, present and future, but we don't really experience past and future, only present. Past and future are just ideas in the present. This means that there is only now, but what is now? We can't say what now is because there is no not-now. It's always now. There is only now.

Nothing false will survive. Nothing true will perish.

The American dream of freedom and abundance is just a child's rendering of true freedom and abundance, and serves only to convince people who haven't gone anywhere that they've already arrived.

book and magazine publishers aren't in the business of enlightenment. They're in the business of selling books and magazines, not truth, and they know that seekers will gladly pay to be reassured that, common sense aside, they can wake up and stay asleep; awakening within the dreamstate being a much more marketable solution than waking up from it. Such

The fabric is rent. Whatever stories at whatever degree of belief these people use to shield themselves from reality have just been structurally destabilized. The stories may survive for weeks or months or years, but their demise is now assured and the time will come when each of these people gets what they came here for; a direct confrontation with reality.

A common example of Spiritual Dissonance would be; If God loves us, why does He allow so much suffering? The certainty of God's love is the internal belief. The obviousness of human suffering is the external reality. Is God unable to end suffering? No, we must answer, because He can do whatever He wants. Therefore, He must allow or even cause suffering. But how can that be if He loves us? Something somewhere has to give or, preferably, we avoid asking the question in the first place.

Who we think we are can be stripped away forever," I make a poof gesture, "just like that. Right now, well fed, unthreatened, we have the luxury of pretending the Donners and the Nazis and the gang-bangers are someone else, but they're not. They're us; a veil's breadth away. There are no good guys and bad guys. People are people, all the same; only the circumstances change.

What do we know for sure? That's the real question. That's what the cogito is. That's what solipsism is. This isn't theory. This isn't belief or faith. This is the basic fact of existence. It's all about figuring out exactly what we know for certain as opposed to everything else. It's truly amazing that something so glaringly obvious and irrefutable is so universally ignored by science and philosophy and religion.

If there is conflict between idea and actual, then the idea is in error.

The truth is that no belief is true, and to say that any belief is true is to open the floodgates and say that all beliefs are true.

There's no overestimating our ability to avoid making eye contact with the obvious.