Quotes About Reality

The heartbreak of finding an empty teacup when you thought there was one gulp to go.

Still occasionally mistaking brightness for warmth.

But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good.

In Vegas, the veneer of glamor was bright but thin. You didn't have to look that hard to see the darker realities that lurked beneath the surface.

Most kids don't believe in fairy tales very long. Once they hit six or seven they put away "Cinderella" and her shoe fetish, "The Three Little Pigs" with their violation of building codes, "Miss Muffet" and her well?shaped tuffet—all forgotten or discounted.And maybe that's the way it has to be. To survive in the world, you have to give up the fantasies, the make?believe.

You can't choose, who you are. No matter how you struggle, some things will never change. And maybe they schouldn't.

I found my fantasy in movies and she found it in mermaids, but we both knew you needed something. The smarter you were, the more you saw the world for what it was, people for who they truly were, those inside-out people, and if that was all you saw... you'd be in therapy 24/7. You needed to make your own reality because the real version could make you doubt humanity.

the world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it.

You don't want the truth. Truth is boring.

Everybody loves your life but you

More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality.

Reviews and the show's own publicity always stressed its "realism." There is no doubt it

Personal power is the result of feeling fear, but not giving in to the fear. There is a solution to the helplessness and vulnerability Nice Guys feel. Recovery from the Nice Guy Syndrome allows Nice Guys to embrace the personal power that is their birthright. Reclaiming personal power includes: •?Surrendering. •?Dwelling in reality. •?Expressing feelings. •?Facing fears. •?Developing integrity. •?Setting boundaries.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

Each age needs its own language for understanding enduring truths…The ancient world didn't have much of what we call reality; they lived, instead, by the slender threads. We have gained ego reality but have lost the mystical and religious functions that should guide our lives.

Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.

You yourself can be god. You really are that, in fact. You, yourself, are reality. You, yourself, are buddha. (p. 18)

We have the assurance of the enlightened beings that reality is goodness, that reality is freedom from suffering, that reality is bliss. So we should never fear to open ourselves to reality, to cast aside our preconceptions and biases, and to open more and more to whatever turns out to be real. You can have faith in enlightenment, faith in evolutionary potential, faith in infinity, faith in your infinite self. (p. 222)

The world is what the individual makes it. A world of individuals is the intersubjective, collective mind field of all those individuals. Standing on the ground of freedom, we can see things afresh, enter relationships renewed and with a new purpose of sharing freedom and happiness. We can become poets and seers of reality. We can become great adepts, true individuals, agents of compassion. To live in a world is to be constantly creating that world. (p. 215)

Silence is the Buddha's greatest expression. It's the Buddha's great teaching, what the Hindus call "You are That" in the Upanishads. "You are the ultimate reality. You are God!" the Hindus boldly declare. But the Buddha's way of affirming that fact is by being silent, because if you are that, after all, if you are what the theists think is God, you already know it yourself. (p. 15)

How can we hope, after all, to see a tree or rock or clear north sky if we do not adopt a little of their mode of life, a little of their time? ...if the time it takes to cross space is a way by which we define it, then to arrive at a view of space "in no time" is to have denied its reality...

Dreams, [...], are misleading, because they make life seem real. When it loses the support of dreams, life dissolves.

Life, as we know it, could hardly continue if men did not soon slay the dreamer inside them

But after life has begun to run away from us, nothing is ever again really credible, nor does it matter.