Quotes About Reality

There were usually not nearly as many sick people inside the hospital as Yossarian saw outside the hospital, and there were generally fewer people inside the hospital who were seriously sick. There was a much lower death rate inside the hospital than outside the hospital, and a much healthier death rate.

Though we might wish otherwise, the history of what might have been is usually not really history at all, mixing together as it does the messy tangle of past experience with the clairvoyant certainty of our present preferences.

Remember, it is the world within, namely, your thoughts, feelings, and imagery that makes your world without.

You can take a trip to the teller's window in your imagination, and make it so real and true that it will actually take place physically.

if you consciously assume something as true, even though it may be false, your subconscious mind will accept it as true and proceed to bring about results which must necessarily follow, because you consciously assumed it to be true.

Every thought entertained by your conscious mind and accepted as true is sent by your cortex to the other organs of the brain that support your subconscious mind, to be made into your flesh and to be brought forth into your world as a reality.

Remember that your subconscious mind cannot take a joke. It takes you at your word.

The most wonderful thing to know is this: Imagine the end desired and feel its reality; then the infinite life principle will respond to your conscious choice and your conscious request. This is the meaning of believe you have received, and you shall receive. This is what the modern mental scientist does when he practices prayer therapy.

It is impossible. It can't be done," the man with imagination said, "It is done!" Through your imagination you can also penetrate the depths of reality, and reveal the secrets of nature.

Anything that you accept as true and believe in will be accepted by your subconscious mind, and brought into your life as a condition, experience, or event. Ideas are conveyed to the subconscious mind through feeling.

Whether the object of your faith be real or false, you will nevertheless obtain the same effects.

The thoughts you habitually entertain in your mind have the tendency to actualize themselves in physical conditions.

The important point is to become intensely interested in the mental picture or imaginary act, making it real and natural.

Recuerde: no es aquello en que se cree lo que proporciona el resultado, sino la creencia de su propia mente. Deje de creer en las falsas creencias, opiniones, supersticiones y temores del género humano. Comience a creer en las eternas realidades y

You're now acquainted with the way the subconscious mind works. You know that whatever you impress upon it shall be experienced in your world.

Keep your thinking in the present—don't count your chickens before they hatch, and you won't be so disappointed with a broken egg once in a while.

In short, and to put the matter bluntly, without the healing power of grace we are not be able to reason our way to God because we will lack the desire to engage with the reality beyond ourselves. In refusing this grace, we excommunicate ourselves from the world of objective reality, exorcising the power of reason instead of exercising it. In so doing, we condemn ourselves to life imprisonment, turning our very lives into a living death sentence. Since

Fairy stories had introduced him to morality and he came to believe that only in morality was reality.

That is what is meant by the proposition omne ens est verum (everything that is, is true)—though we have almost ceased to understand it—and by the complementary proposition that being and truth are interchangeable concepts. (What does truth mean, where things are concerned, the truth of things? "A thing is true" means: it is known and knowable, known to the absolute spirit, knowable to the spirit that is not absolute.

The very best, most optimistic hope we can cling to is that we're tic birds who ride the rhino's back and eat the parasites out of the flesh and keep the beast from disease and hope we're not parasites too. In the end we suspect it's all vanity and delusion. Parasites, all of us." "Yeah

Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since

Blackouts can be fun if approached with the right mindset. You just can't sweat the fact that you've lost a small portion of your life for all eternity. Occasionally, little bubbles of memory will float up like surreal Mylar party balloons at unexpected times throughout the net day and start piecing together a colorful, if incomplete, version of reality.

Truth isn't beauty. It isn't even always true. Truth is nothing more than consistency of message. I learned that from advertising.

once you've crawled into what's commonly thought of as the sordid underbelly of life, you realize it's all just different versions of normal.