Quotes About Reality

Naturally we project that the moon is always there in space-time, even when we are not looking. Quantum physics says no. When we are not looking, the moon's possibility wave spreads, albeit by a minuscule amount. When we look, the wave collapses instantly; thus the wave could not be in space-time. It makes more sense to adapt an idealist metaphysic assumption: There is no object in space-time without a conscious subject looking at it.

the fundamental process of Nature lies outside space-time but generates events that can be located in space-time.

All the world of experience, including matter, is the material manifestation of transcendent forms of consciousness.

A map is not the territory and is not as interesting as the territory.

Consciousness is the true reality, and matter is an epiphenomenon bordering on trivial.

With nonlocal connection, we are forced to conceptualize a domain of reality outside space-time because a nonlocal connection cannot happen in space-time.

Why, then, in our ordinary experience do we feel so separate? This separateness, insists the mystic, is an illusion.

THE ANTITHESIS OF MATERIAL REALISM is monistic idealism. In this philosophy, consciousness, not matter, is fundamental. Both the world of matter and the world of mental phenomena, such as thought, are determined by consciousness.

Get rid of the disbeliefs and the mental blockages. Create the positive vibrations and allow the universe to co-create the reality and manifest your intensions.

Om (AUM) is the truth of all truths, the light of all lights and the destroyer of all illusions.

You think this will solve all our problems. It's magical thinking, Michael. It's the way a child thinks.

Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.

Facts have a tendency to obscure the truth.

The whole of reality was just a vain attempt to imitate the world of words.

There is no freedom about this: the world gives, and you just take what you're given, with no opportunity to choose.

A tortoise's shell is a house of the poverty and if the tortoise is taken to the wealthy town, it will still be living in its house of poverty.

The rope of the truth is thin but there is nobody who can cut it; the rope of lie is thick as a large pillar but it can be cut easily into a thousand pieces.

She suffered from the opposite of "phantom limb" syndrome; something essential appeared to be present, but it was not.

We live and we love the world, Lillian thinks, and we kid ourselves that the world loves us back.

Mrs. Gruber said that happiness was not something she aspired to, that when we had seen as much of the world as she had, we would know that what lies right behind the horseshit is not a prize pony, my dears, it's more horseshit.

This is not true, that nothing bad will happen, and therefore not comforting to me. It leaves me quite alone with reality, but the way he feels is exactly what I want for him.

Perspective is useful, of course: It's why very few people want to be eighteen again. But the other side is having so much perspective, it's hard to give a damn about anything happening here in the real.

In case you didn't know, dead people don't bleed. If you can bleed-see it, feel it-then you know you're alive. It's irrefutable, undeniable proof. Sometimes I just need a little reminder.

I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the video war game.