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Quotes About Reality

Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls. Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. [...] Then it was as if One voice sounded. One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing; now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
~ Plotinus
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
~ Plutarch
All beyond this is portentous and fabulous, inhabited by poets and mythologers, and there is nothing true or certain.
~ Plutarch
All men, while they are awake, are in one common world; but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
~ Plutarch
The insula is the heart of subjective emotional experience. It's the brain region where our perception of what's happening to us matters more than what's really happening to us. The
~ PO BRONSON
And, I often think, the truth isn't good or bad, it's just the truth.
~ Polly Horvath
What I mean is, all the terrible things that happen in fairy tales seem real. Or not real, but genuine. Life is unfair, and the bad guys keep winning and good people die. But I like how that's not always the end of it...Evil is real, but so is good. They always say fairy tales are simplistic, black and white, but I don't think so. I think they're complicated. That's what I love about them.
~ Polly Shulman
You're sweet, Leo," said Jaya. "But how do you know the you in the world where I'm not me isn't saying the exact same thing to the not-me me right now?" "I don't. But I don't care what he's saying because he's not me. He's just some other guy saying something to some other girl who isn't you. Or maybe he's the girl and you're a guy in which case he's some other girl saying something to some other guy who isn't you," I said. "It has nothing to do with us.
~ Polly Shulman
Tidak masalah membayangkan pernikahan akan seperti New York City dan mendapati bahwa ternyata lebih menyerupai Brussels. Bukan berarti ada yang salah, atau bahwa kau dikutuk untuk bercerai. Itu hanya berarti bahwa kau menaiki pesawat yang berbeda.
~ Polly Williams
Everything in the cosmos now proves to be relative. Nothing is autonomous in itself. All things in the world betray their interdependence with each other. Metaphysics ceases to be an abstract system of thought and becomes an experiential reality. Not beings in the world but the world itself comes to be questioned.
~ Polly Young-Eisendrath
What is drama, and what is dharma? I guess you could say drama is illusion that acts like truth, and dharma is truth itself—the way things are, the basic state of reality that does not change from day to day according to fashion or our mood or agenda.
~ Ponlop Rinpoche, Dzogchen
We do not seek a Christ whom we have invented, for only in the real communion of the Church do we encounter the real Christ.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
~ Pope John Paul (II)
Love is the only good way many of us know how to feel alive. And the ghost I so often was wanted badly to feel real. And the characters in this section can at least tell you I existed. They might not have thought of me much, but they can tell you I was real. Sometimes too real.
~ Porochista Khakpour
it was not hard to write the equations for an infinity of such parallel worlds. By logical necessity the laws of nature would vary from one to another. Therefore, somewhere in the boundlessness of reality, anything you can imagine must actually exist! Holger
~ Poul Anderson
This business of Chaos versus Law, for example, turned out to be more than religious dogma. It was a practical fact of existence, here.
~ Poul Anderson
Tiempo atrás los hombres buscaban la iluminación para escapar del espejismo del mundo. Hoy sostenían que sólo existía el espejismo.
~ Poul Anderson
The fact that there are countless things we will never know, and many that we could not possibly know, does not mean they do not exist—only that we cannot prove it.
~ Poul Anderson
Adults who have taken covid vaccine for beneficial effect should wait till 2025 for reality to emerge of it. Horrible ?
~ Prafull Sakulani
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~ Prafull Sakulani
Hi all, can we make this twitter trend tomorrow? 9 am to 12 noon, Jan 20, 2022! #CovaxinFirstforAllCabinetMinistersChildren #CovaxinFirstforAllTopCricketersChildren #CovaxinFirstforAllMultiBillionairesChildren #CovaxinFirstforAllMediaMogalsChildren #CovaxinFirstforAllBollywoodStarsChildren All this vaccination should be in public place in front of live camera. All reality about this toxin vaccine will come out
~ Prafull Sakulani
Cerita tentang kesenangan selalu tidak menarik. Itu bukan cerita tentang manusia dan kehidupannya , tapi tentang surga, dan jelas tidak terjadi di atas bumi kita ini".
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Kita semua harus menerima kenyataan, tapi menerima kenyataan saja adalah pekerjaan manusia yang tak mampu lagi berkembang. Karena manusia juga bisa membikin kenyataan-kenyataan baru. Kalau tak ada orang mau membikin kenyataan-kenyataan baru, maka "kemajuan" sebagai kata dan makna sepatutnya dihapuskan dari kamus umat manusia.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Setiap tulisan merupakan dunia tersendiri, yang terapung-apung antara dunia kenyataan dan dunia impian.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer