Quotes About Reality

I wanted to get it all down on paper; a record of what happened----just in case something did happen to me---- and to try and convince myself that I was not living in a state of permanent delusion. But why should you accept this story as given? It's just a story----my story. And like all stories, it isn't, in the pure sense of the word, true. It's just my version of the truth. Which means it is----and isn't----true at all.

We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to....because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather not hear.

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

The Bible had at best become like the work of Ovid or Homer: containing great truth, but not itself true.

All around us we have the wreckage – metaphorical and real – of all our dreams, our religions, our political ideologies and a thousand other aspirations, all of which in their turn have proved false. And though we have no more illusions or ambitions left, yet we are still here. So what do we do?

having to sort of pretend – collectively – that it is in fact true.

You think of yourself as an "individual person", with a unique and separate mind. You think you are born and you think you die. All your life you feel separate and alone. Sometimes desperately so. You fear death because you fear the loss of individuality. All this is an illusion. You, he, she, those things around you living or not, the stars and galaxies, the empty space in between- these are not distinct, separate objects. All is fundamentally entangled.

This "out of sight, out of mind" externalization of poverty and poison doesn't go away just because we've covered our eyes with VR goggles and immersed ourselves in an alternate reality.

I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.

As far as the propositions of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. —Albert Einstein (1879–1955)

So here is the foundational principle: Jesus is Lord and Caesar is not. Everything else in all political economy is a footnote to that profound and glorious reality. And we don't need to pray in order to make that true. It was true before any of us were born. But we should pray that God gives us the vision to see and believe that. Why should we believe that? Well, we are called believers, after all.

This is why stories like this, with great evils in them, are necessary for children to read. Kids just got here—they are still figuring things out, and stories are one of the central realities that can help them. Chesterton says somewhere that stories about dragons and knights do not teach children to fear dragons. They had dragons under the bed already. They had the fear already. The stories actually teach children that dragons can be killed. And

The Promise of This Day Look to this day, For it is life, The very life of life. In its brief course lie all The realities and verities of existence, The bliss of growth, The splendor of action, The glory of power— For yesterday is but a dream, And tomorrow is only a vision. But today, well lived, Makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day. Sanskrit Proverb

We can only find "true peace of mind" by accepting that life is alternately bitter and sweet (Morita, 1928/1998, p. 87).

juzgas la realidad de otros no podrás evitar juzgar la tuya propia.

De esta forma se puede afirmar que el yo tiene una existencia real desde el punto de vista relativo pero irreal desde una perspectiva absoluta.

Las consideraciones anteriores implican que lo que vivimos como acontecimientos externos son realmente proyecciones del continuo mental. Desde luego que estas proyecciones no son simples y menos conscientes, sino solamente desarrollos psicológicos profundos que permiten, a quien posee la madurez suficiente, la capacidad de atribuirle a los eventos externos un origen interno.

Por lo tanto, la Teoría Sintérgica se inscribe dentro de una tradición monista-idealista, la cual solamente acepta una realidad, la de la conciencia en todos sus posibles niveles.

Existen etapas en las que es útil, o necesario, y, quizá, hasta indispensable. Exactamente lo mismo es aplicable a las teorías que intentan entender los filtros de la Realidad: apegarse a una explicación es un obstáculo, pero en ciertas etapas es útil y hasta necesario contar con una teoría, siempre y cuando ésta abra caminos y amplíen el entendimiento.

Esto lo expresaba muy claramente Vivekananda cuando afirmaba que "nosotros no sabemos lo que existe allá afuera, lo único que conocemos es nuestra respuesta".

En realidad la dicotomía mente-materia es sólo una apariencia. El mundo es parte de la conciencia y quien así lo vive se da cuenta de que una de las características de la realidad es su carácter mágico en donde los acontecimientos reflejan el estado interno.

La sensación del mundo físico como entidad externa, independiente y autónoma, se desmorona para quien se percata de esa unidad, y en lugar de una realidad externa inerte y fría, el mundo se vislumbra como lo que es en realidad, un conjunto de procesos no desligados de la propia conciencia.

El paso de un cuerpo correlacionado a otro, no implica una creación a partir de la nada, sino un acceso a lo que ya existe. La observación es el mecanismo que permite la trascendencia, puesto que el observador parece situarse en una realidad aparte, más allá de todos los cuerpos correlacionados

En un experimento publicado en la década de los 80´s, el autor de esta obra y E. Roy Jonh del Brain Research Laboratory de la ciudad de Nueva York, demostramos que las expectativas que un sujeto tiene acerca de la realidad que percibe determinan cambios en su actividad cerebral acordes con las expectativas (las descripciones y estructuras conceptuales que posee) y no con la Realidad.