Quotes About Reality

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.

We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead.

Who says God has created this world? We have created it by our own imagination.

Isn't this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?

If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.

TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.

The substance of all realities is in this religion of Jesus Christ; but it can be real only to those who will do His will.

If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this unity be made evident to man in religion, and become in him consciousness and reality.

Religion is a more or less organized way of remembering that every ministry points to a higher reality.

The answer to the ancient question Why is there something rather than nothing would be that nothingis unstable.

There is no god higher than truth.

Some things need to be believed to be seen.

When one guy sees an invisible man he's a nut case; ten people see him it's a cult; ten million people see him it's a respected religion.

I regard belief as a form of brain damage.

Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

We all behave as though what we think is true, is true.

Maybe it wasn't anything remotely to do with religion, mysticism or metaphilosophy after all; maybe it was more banal; maybe it was just...accounting.

True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal with this cognitive dissonance.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.