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Quotes About Reality

There is no evidence of a perfect world, a perfect man or a perfect family anywhere on earth.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
When humanity ignores imagination, there is no growth, no quest to outgrow fear, no desire for spiritual reality. Evolution does not happen. Spiritual reality remains undiscovered. Only the self matters; others remain invisible. In other words, humans stay animals.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Within infinite myths lies the eternal truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes Indra, a hundred You and I, only two
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Only the truly enlightened know the world as it truly is; the rest construct a reality that comforts the ego.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Prakriti is nature. Brahmanda is culture. Prakriti creates man. Man creates Brahmanda. Prakriti is objective reality. Brahmanda is subjective reality. Atma witnesses Prakriti, aham constructs Brahmanda.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
there is a reality greater than what you perceive.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Your reality is different from my reality, because your body is different, your filters are different, your experiences are different, your knowledge is different.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
History seeks to be everyone's truth, but is limited by available facts. More often than not, what is passed off as history is mythology, someone's understanding of truth shaped by memory, feelings and desire, available facts notwithstanding. However, it is never fantasy, or no one's truth.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
The Veda says that as long as we do not accept life for what it is, as long as we try to control and change things, there will always be conflict. Conflict ends when we realize that beyond tangible material reality, there is intangible spiritual reality.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Every human creates his own imagined version of the world, and of himself. Every human is therefore Brahma, creator of his own aham.Aham Brahmasmi, I am Brahma. Tat tvam asi, so are you.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
All the things that we value—justice, equality, free speech, human rights—are actually concepts churned out of imagination, just like ideas such as God, heaven, hell, rebirth and immortality. We may classify these ideas as secular or religious, rational or supernatural, value one over the other, but they are essentially creations of humans, by humans, for humans. They are artificial constructions, not natural phenomena. They have no independent existence outside humans.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Goddess is nature and God is how nature is perceived by the human imagination.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
now I know the power of maya: that which deludes you to be unhappy can be overpowered by another delusion that causes greater unhappiness. Oh
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Certainty comes as you move away from facts.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
What we mean by 'life' is a psychological response to the physical world.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Only the truly enlightened know the world as it truly is; the rest construct a reality that comforts the ego. The
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
When the mind is knotted in fear, the problem is always outside, never inside.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
All work has inadequacies; even fire is enveloped by smoke.—Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 18, verses 47 and 48 (paraphrased).
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Within infinite myths lies the eternal truth, Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes Indra a hundred And I, only two.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
knowledge of the world is imperfect based on perceptions and false information.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
The world that you perceive is actually a delusion (maya) based on your chosen measuring scale.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Only the truly enlightened know the world as it truly is; the rest construct a reality that comforts the
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Only the truly enlightened know the world as it truly is; the rest construct a reality that comforts the ego. The enlightened are therefore always at peace while
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
that which deludes you to be unhappy can be overpowered by another delusion that causes greater unhappiness
~ Devdutt Pattanaik