Quotes About Reality

Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion.

Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.

When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.

What's the truth? The truth is what people WANT. Liars are basically idealists, liars are saints and prophets. Jesus was a liar.

Not only does the liberal paradigm not even come close to agreeing with the social and economic reality on the ground today, worse, it has largely congealed into a political religion. . .

Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion farthest from reality.

There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.

Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.

There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.

God is not an Almighty Being watching over life on earth. God is the Event Horizon of Human Consciousness.

Religion is not what appears. It's what guides the appearance. There is an appearance of everything. But the appearance doesn't always have something behind it.

A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to support belief but they run away fr'm doubt.

There is a good deal too strange to be believed nothing is too strange to have happened.

The purest definition of "religious" is: relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality.

There was no truth in anything he said, anything he believed. It was all just an expression of his own needs.

The mere fact that a very large number of people believe such a thing and that the world would be a better place if it were true, is no reason for believing that it is true.

If i believe my truth is true and you believe your truth is true, what if my truth says yours is a lie.is it still true?

We keep hoping in God while reality keeps knocking at our door.

Religion, culture, education are all things that sound wonderful in theory. In practice, however, they are not so wonderful.

It hurts so badly when you grow up and understand that everything you believed in and devoted yourself were just fallacy and stupidity.

That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh).

You can't burn down a made-up place.

Fortunately or unfortunately, the greatest authority on matters of life is life itself.

When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn't respect me.' 'I should be thinner.' Those are stories. When there's no story, there's no suffering.