Quotes About Reality

The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.' It puts an affront upon nature.

Each is liable to panic, which is, exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him ... I see not how it can be otherwise.

Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and can only attend to what addresses the senses.

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

Materialists speak of the power of people in masses—nations, societies, classes, institutions. Idealists speak of the power of individuals, measuring people by the strength of spirit they exude. According to idealists, mind is the fundamental reality—the ground of all being—and everything else is its reflection. Everything in nature is an expression of the universal mind.

An actually existent fly is more important than a possibly existent angel.

Treat all people as if they are real, because who knows, perhaps they are.

Far off, men swell, bully and threaten: bring them hand to hand, and they are a feeble folk.

The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal. It

We as we read must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner, must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.

We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables

The shows of day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, and the like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality. Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.

Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the tough fiber of the human heart.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

What is History," said Napoleon, "but a fable agreed upon?

This relation between the mind and matter is not fancied

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code.

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.

All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.

Prolong not the past Invite not the future Do not alter your innate wakefulness Fear not appearances There in nothing more than this

You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.

What we're seeing out there is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.