Quotes About Reality

We who live on earth can hardly even begin to understand the reality of the spiritual world until we ourselves come to dwell in it. This is a process that begins now, in this life, but ends only in eternity, when we will behold "face to face" what we now see only "through a glass, darkly

Most people consider problems whose solutions don't suit them to be insoluble. And they constantly ask questions to which they don't need truthful answers.

Let's assume there really is no such thing as happiness, no such thing as peace, and no freedom either. But there are kind of attacks of senseless ecstasy. Can this be me?

Looking around, do you see ruins? That was to be expected. He who lives in the world of words does not get along with things.

We believe what we want to believe, and once we believe something, it becomes a self-fulfilling truth.

No one has a transparent view of the world. In fact, we all carry around a personal worldview—the biases and experiences and expectations that color the way we perceive the world.

Education isn't a problem until it serves as a buffer rom the world and a refuge from the risk of failure.

Life is actually far better than it is in the movies. And it takes longer.

Reality is the best reassurance of all.

Expectations are the engine of our perceptions.

It's easier to be mediocre than it is to confront reality and quit. Quitting is difficult. Quitting requires you to acknowledge that you're never going to be #1 in the world. At least not at this. So it's easier just to put it off, not admit it, settle for mediocre. What a waste.

Scarcity creates value, and what's scarce is a desire to accept what is and then work to change it for the better, not deny that it exists.

The challenge lies in knowing your market and yourself well enough to see the truth.

Everyone wants something that they can't possibly have. And if they could have it, they'd discover that they didn't really want it all along.

Picasso hesitates for a moment and asks, "So what do you think reality looks like?" The man grabs his wallet and pulls out a picture of his wife. "Here, like this. It's my wife." Picasso takes the photograph, looks at it, and grins. "Really? She's very small. And flat, too.

There's no shortage of panic and no shortage of people willing to rearrange the truth to preserve their vision of the world as they'd like it to be.

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics.

philosopher Archie Bahm: "Nature can never be completely described, for such a description of nature would have to duplicate nature." That is, a perfect description of the universe is indistinguishable from the universe itself.

To help others is the way of Buddha and the teaching of Christianity - in this point the two religions are the same. What matters is weather or not you walk the path of truth. That is not God. It is like a butterfly caught in a spider's web. At first it is certainly a butterfly, but the next day only the externals, the wings and the trunk, are those of a butterfly; it has lost it's true reality and has become a skeleton.

Life is but a dream, within a dream.

Is this a vision? Is this a dream? Do I sleep?

Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths.

Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me.

The world in which we live is no more real than a moon beam reflected in water drawn from the palm of the hand...