Quotes About Reality

Joe is never sure whether they're mad or just alarmingly and uncompromisingly incapable of self-delusion.

But life doesn't always imitate art.

We have regarded as real what is unreal. We have to give up this attitude.

Find the Source of this false I: then it will disappear.

So, there is really no entity by the name of [my] "mind";

The one who has known for certain that all this world is the product of illusion, and that nothing exists, naturally enjoys peace.

The world is your thought.

the "I" is first created, and then the world.

So the body which did not exist in sleep, "exists" now in "waking.

There is mischief, or ignorance, as long as there is an object apart from a subject:

When there is no one to "experience," where is there a question of an I? Only that which Is remains.

Do not find any duality. The wise do not see "this" and "that," they do not perceive the "relative". Completely give up distinctions—the "world" of the relative is transcended by the wise. Free from the pairs of opposites (such as better-worse), the sage sees the same everywhere—his perception is nondual. Duality is the root of misery.

There are no "others": the Self is the one and only reality.

Nothing more can be predicated of the Self than its existence.

To see the false as the false, you need to lay aside all the search-oriented teachings, and focus on (contemplate) the reality that your presence and the Absolute presence cannot be other than the same presence.

The immanent Reality alone is. It is infinite. There arises, from it, this finite [extension of] consciousness, taking on a limited form [mind].

When I understood this much about the People, I realized how truly different their reality was. My reality is made in my head; I create roles for myself, I create a structure that requires certain activities and prohibits others. I live in time; I have an agenda. Their existence had no reality until they lived it.

If you accept the idea that many of our most troublesome feelings are in one sense or another illusions, then meditation can be seen as, among other things, a process of dispelling illusions.

We are designed to feel that the next great goal will bring bliss, and the bliss is designed to evaporate shortly after we get there. Natural selection has a malicious sense of humor; it leads us along with a series of promises and then keeps saying "Just kidding.

If you put these two fundamental Buddhist ideas together—the idea of not-self and the idea of emptiness—you have a radical proposition: neither the world inside you nor the world outside you is anything like it seems.

feelings are "false" or perhaps "illusory" if they lead the organism astray—

I would be approaching the truth.

Y tal vez eso es lo que es el «yo», lo que «tú» eres, una vez que se abandona la idea de yo: un tipo de forma de conciencia purificada.

WRITER: But tell me before you go. What was the worst thing about being down here? AGNES: Just existing. Knowing my sight was blurred by my eyes, my hearing dulled by my ears, and my bright thought trapped in the grey maze of a brain. Have you seen a brain?