Quotes About Reality

Sometimes people that are standing on third base think they hit a triple. But they didn't.

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

The days are stacked against what we think we are.

We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

It is a sad and beautiful world.

Unpleasant facts don't go away simply because we stop paying conscious attention to them.

Most citizens today cannot imagine such a possibility because they are psychologically affected by a phenomenon known as normalcy bias, whereby people fail to recognize or underestimate the possibility of disaster. Most people tend to believe that whatever they experience on a day-to-day basis is 'normal' and that things will stay that way.

Drugs are a bet with the mind

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: curiosity

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.

Objects as they exist in time the clean eye and camera give us. Not falsified by seeing.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.

Drugs are a bet with your mind.

Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.

TWO PSYCHOLOGICAL CROWD MODELS Delusion Model

The Illusion Model

We live in the world we made up.

All I'm trying to say is that if you're not willing to observe this, if you're just going to condemn it, you're never going to see it. It's there, whether you like it or not. This is stupid life-force we're dealing with here," he said. "Think how old it is, Jim. Think how huge it is. Understanding it doesn't make any difference.

Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

The salt of the earth dissolves and the shit remains

Honest men in prison know that there is no such thing as "brainwashing" or "breaking." These expressions of self-delusion never find use behind bars. They are just unfortunate metaphors that allow people outside prison to be less uncomfortable in discussing human limitations.

Remember that a wish held fervently turns into belief, and a belief held diligently becomes reality.