Quotes About Reality

Why not ask yourself whether your other dreams are real? You go on trips and undergo the strangest experiences every night. How do you know they only take place in your mind?

Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.

Komisch warm daß inmitten eines Wirklichkeit gewordenen Alptraums, in einem unterirdischen Schloß ohne Ausgang mir schon der Anblick von lesbarer Schrift ein Gefühl von Geborgenheit geben konnte. Deshalb mußte ich lachen, oh meine Freunde, schallend und anhaltend.

Mein Freund erkannte tatsächlich, daß es so nicht weiterging, wenn er nicht in einer Zwangsjacke enden wollte. Er sah ein, daß er sich mehr den weltlichen Dingen zuwenden mußte. Also verließ er seine Wahngebäude, ließ sie zu wunderschönen Ruinen verfallen, die er nur noch selten aufsuchte. Und er konzentrierte sich nun auf das, was ihn umgab.

And so you try as hard as you can to separate out what you wish from what is actually there, never abandoning your ultimate dreams for the film, but trying as hard as you can to see what is actually on the screen.

Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

Hagas lo que hagas para huir, de todas maneras te tocará afrontar tu existencia.

La clave para no caer en identificaciones falsas es aprender a discriminar la importancia real (objetiva, sin sesgos) de la importancia ficticia (exagerada y sin arraigo en la realidad) de las cosas o las personas con las que nos vinculamos.

El maestro llevaba muchos años predicando que la vida no era más que ilusión. Cuando murió su hijo, rompió a llorar. Sus discípulos se le acercaron y le dijeron: –Maestro, ¿cómo puede llorar tanto si nos ha explicado que todas las cosas de esta vida son una ilusión? –Sí —respondió el sabio, enjugándose las lágrimas que resbalaban por sus mejillas—, ¡él era una ilusión tan hermosa!

Todo fluye, todo cambia, todo nace y muere, nada permanece, todo se diluye; lo que tiene principio tiene fin, lo nacido muere y lo compuesto se descompone. Todo es transitorio, insustancial y, por tanto, insatisfactorio. No hay nada fijo de qué aferrarse».

La atención trabaja al servicio de los esquemas que tenemos. No es libre, sino esclava de las creencias. Vemos lo que nos conviene, sacrificamos el todo, lo real, por aquellas partes o trozos de información que concuerdan con nuestra motivación básica.

Maquiavelo dice: "Los fantasmas asustan más de lejos que de cerca".

La mente flexible mantiene opiniones, tiene creencias y principios, pero está dispuesta al cambio y en pleno contacto con la realidad.

what if everything that we see, everything that seems real - what if it was not real?...What if the stuff that was real was somehow hidden?... [56]

what if everything that we see, everything that seems real - what if is was not real?...What if the stuff that was real was somehow hidden?...[56]

He had lost the bright gods, and he had not been accepted by the dark. He was in a no soul's land, and in its isolation his own soul was withdrawn, small and heavy as a stone within him, and about his evil deed. No wonder it could not take wing and make the heralding music. That was the whole of reality now, the little stone inside, and outside the cold, dark ravine and the inescapable watcher.

Just being is the main thing. Anything else is extra.

a gentle, permanent reality that was in him like his bones or his heart, that made him seem like an everlasting part of things.

Vacation syndrome is dangerously seductive. You actually believe that this magical place you have come to allows you to be the contented, stress-free person you really are. There's a lot of vacation syndrome in Paris.

So many people, if the truth were known, live their lives on two levels. The principles they fight about are often at odds with the complicated and often frustrated lives they live. This is why there is so much intensity.

Je problematischer der Charakter, desto problemloser erscheint ihm die Welt.

Owê war sint verswunden alliu mîniu jâr! ist mir mîn leben getroumet, oder ist ez wâr?

We all share one planet and are one humanity; there is no escaping this reality.

Men are disturbed not by the things that happen but by their opinions about those things.