Quotes About Reality

Life is whatever we conceive it to be.

You can't be more horrific than life itself.

All writers are autobiographical to a degree and writing about the nature of their inner life. My inner life has always been a struggle between my conception of myself and the world versus reality.

Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.

Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life

Who claims that the heathen's view of the world is incorrect? Life gives you nothing! It is ruled by false gods! Nothing remains true to you but your own self; provided you remain true to it.

Power is the thing that holds a band of perception together, and a band of perception is life for those who perceive in that band. If the band of perception were to go away, they would not exist.

On the pathway of knowledge we view life as in a dream. We feel that all of this world is a dream.

Consciousness is the screen. The images on the screen are your perceptions, the illusion that life is solid, that there is a material universe.

You are fighting against nothingness all the time by creating a series of shields that you call personality, life history, feelings, ideas, and ways of seeing.

Life is a series of dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses. I don't necessarily believe in linear time. Everything happens all at once forever.

Zen is meditation, the actual experience of life directly, immediately with no buffers.

Will something else. Have dreams and believe in them. They don't have to come true. They are just as true as a dream is. Life itself is a dream.

Life reorders you when you go into the clear light. Even the causal structure is liquefied. The clear light of reality, the dharmakaya, changes us into beings of light.

Since I have spent many years of my life living in Los Angeles, and since I'm also in the music business, I know that much more is talked about in Los Angeles than ever really occurs.

There is no future and there is no past, there never has been, there never will be. You just think there is. It's not life that moves; it's awareness.

What you have known of this life so far is only a dream, a slim dream at that. As one who has traveled greatly in the worlds, I can assure you there is much to see and much to become.

For an advanced preceiver, the play of life is to assemble and reassemble the self in alternate realities of which this is one.

Life is more or less the same wherever you go, because, wherever you go, there you are.

Life is perception. We perceive through different parts of the body of the universe.

We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view of life.

You perceive yourself as being solid and physical, limited to a body. You are made up of light, endless mind. The way you see life is a limited state of mind.

Dimensionality only exists because the mind can perceive life that way, but that's only one simple method that the mind has for perceiving itself, for perceiving life.

Happiness is a state of mind. The key to happiness is being able to disconnect your life from your perceptions. If you saw things as they really were, you would be happy automatically.