Quotes About Reality

Your mind is the knife that cuts the continuum of space and time into neat slices of linear experience.

He (God) is right and always has been, because in reality God is only love.

it's as if the universe has a sense of humor, since at a deep level it's impossible not to lead a spiritual life… the universe is living through you at this moment. with or without belief in god, the chain of events leading from silent awareness to physical reality remains intact.

In reality a baby is a field of infinite potential expressing the highest intelligence in Nature.

Commit yourself to the possibility that everything you see around you is far less real than God. You want to see the truth "with all your heart, with all you soul, and with all your mind," as Jesus says. This is actually a commitment to joy.

Yet the only reason you believe that you were born is that your parents saw you emerge from the womb. They thought they witnessed the moment when you began to exist, so they spread the rumor that you had been born." Savitri was astonished. . .

What I want to propose to you is that it is possible to achieve the freedom to have any viewpoint you choose and therefore any reality.

There can be no sense of security in your existence when it depends upon outside factors, for the unpredictable changes of reality can never be controlled.

To the wizard death is merely a belief.

Separation may just be an illusion. When we feel love in any form, it has the effect of beginning to shatter that illusion.

Perception appears to be automatic, but in fact it is a learned phenomenon. The world you live in, including the experience of your body, is completely dictated by how you learned to perceive it. If you change your perception, you change the experience of your body and your world.

Having placed its trust in "reality as given," science overlooks the self- evident fact that nothing can be experienced without consciousness. It is a more viable candidate for "reality as given" than the physical universe.

Everyone was asleep, totally unconscious about their true nature.

Your entire universe is in your mind and nowhere else. To expand the universe, expand your mind.

Countless acts of observation give substance and reality to what would otherwise be ghosts of existence. This solves the so-called "measurement problem" of

Behind the cliché that you create your own reality there is a shadow: if you don't create your own reality, it will be created for you.

You can intend for things to be different in the future, but in this moment, accept things as they are.

P)eople live their whole lives shut in by walls. Reality stands before them, yet they do not see it, because what you call real is just the image of your expectations. Your project the same images everywhere you go. They blind you; they keep you chained to the past, but your greatest fear is that one day the mirror will show you reality.

it may well be that the subject-object dichotomy is false to begin with and that consciousness is primary in the cosmos, not just an epiphenomenon of physical processes in a nervous system.

We spend most of our life cooking up all kinds of untrue things. Why? So we won't be afraid. The mind likes to soothe itself with stories, and after they get made up, we run around under their spell.

Everyone creates the world they perceive, and we all perceive according to impressions fixed in the past.

Ego contraction, however, prevents precisely the free expansion that enables us to find our connection to spirit. This is often described as the difference between the self and the Self. The self is the isolated ego clinging to its small reality; the Self is the unbounded spirit that can afford not to cling at all. Detachment means that you live from the Self instead of the self.

Your soul sees no missed opportunities. In reality every road you traveled offered up an experience as a gift, and as the complex fabric of life wove itself, each experience added to your growth.

Awareness is all that changes in the journey from separation to the one reality.