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Quotes About Reality

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
~ Felix S. Cohen
The ambition of the spiritual traveller never wants to stop with what it has been shown save that the voices of reality call to him, "what you seek is ahead of you.
~ Ibn Ata Allah
There is nothing wrong with God's creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
~ Ramana Maharshi
All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.
~ Carl Jung
As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.
~ Ram Dass
Know that this universe is nothing but a dream bluff of nature to test your consciousness of immortality.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones we cherish about ourselves.
~ Thomas Merton
Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.
~ Albert Einstein
Most people like to live in illusions.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Your ideas need not have anything to do with reality. Making conclusions is a sure way of not enhancing our perception.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
Trying to change social, national, or global realities without working on human consciousness means there is no serious intention.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.
~ Leigh Hunt
This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests.
~ Bede Griffiths
There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.
~ Ram Dass
The brain does not create consciousness, but conciousness created the brain, the most complex physical form on earth, for its expression.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
~ Simone Weil
Past and future are in the mind only - I am now.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual.
~ Piet Mondrian
Spiritual life is absolute reality. Krishna is real but we have lost the ability to realize him.
~ Bhakti Charu Swami
You are the Creator of your reality... you were granted this ability. You have free will... you are an unlimited aspect, a portion of God... of the Creator... of All That Is.
~ Darryl Anka
Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
All mankind's inner feelings eventually manifest themselves as an outer reality.
~ Stuart Wilde
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.
~ Hakuun Yasutani