Quotes About Reality

It's no wonder we don't defend the land where we live. We don't live here. We live in television programs and movies and books and with celebrities and in heaven and by rules and laws and abstractions created by people far away and we live anywhere and everywhere except in our particular bodies on this particular land at this particular moment in these particular circumstances.

So many indigenous people have said to me that the fundamental difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that even the most open-minded westerners generally view listening to the natural world as a metaphor, as opposed to the way the world really is. Trees and rocks and rivers really do have things to say to us.

To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.

I]t seems to be just as foolish to say, 'I imagine, in order to understand more clearly what I am,' as to say, 'I am now clearly awake and I see something true, but because I do not yet see it clearly enough I shall fall asleep so that my dreams will represent it to me more truly and clearly.

Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.

In order to determine whether we can know anything with certainty, we first have to doubt everything we know

Brothers out here flexing their talk, setting themselves up for failures; just to prove a worthless point about what they are really doing in the streets. -MillYentei

Long as you say what people want to hear; you're a real one, but when you start speaking truth, they turn fake real quick. -MillYentei_D.Y.

This world probably sees me as broken and a so-so worthless rejected lifeless tree in a lost wasteland, looked at as many-many hopelessness's, In God's eyes, I am; appeared as this golden tree of life, only the ones free from blindness can see my true reality. -MillYentei D.Y.

This world probably sees me as broken and a so-so worthless rejected lifeless tree in a lost wasteland, looked at as many-many hopelessness's, In God's eyes, I appeared as this golden tree of life, only the ones free from blindness can see my true reality. -MillYentei D.Y.

War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

Lest we forget—that we are not the measure of all things. That reality has a force which we cannot legislate or legislate away. Lest we forget—that we are all carried out into the deep. I dream of escape, of swimming or floating or rafting away. And I dream of staying, of building monuments and religions and civilisations. But in the end we can't stay and we can't escape. So here I sit silent and restless.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

Within infinite myths lies the eternal truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes, Indra has a hundred, You and I, only two.

You want the world to behave as you wish. It does not, hence your anger and your grief.

Within the infinite myths lies the eternal truth

The world that is perceived through any measuring scale is called maya.

There is no such thing as an objective interpretation.

Brahma splits Brahmanda into three parts: me, mine and what is not mine. This is Tripura, the three worlds.

Memories Distort Observation

The notion of the measuring scale is critical in Hindu thought. The value of an object depends on the scale being followed. And since all scales are man-made, all values are artificial. Thus all opinions ultimately are delusions, based on man-made measuring scales.