Quotes About Reality

A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips and teaches us to perceive reality differently.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

I had created a fantasy that seeing into people would be sweetness and love. Maybe there was some of that, but there was a lot more fear, and jealousy, and anger, and every bad thing I could imagine.

Like all places revisited, New Sandhurst was older, smaller and more shabby than he recalled.

See or perish. This is the situation imposed on every element of the universe by the mysterious gift of existence.13

I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation.

They were myths I once believed, and now they were beliefs I felt were myths.

But he's dying". "Who isn't?

There are three things which are real God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third.

It's a sword, not a fairy wand, you know.

You believed this river pebble was a star stone, so it became one.

Well, as my old mam used to say, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it's probably a duck." "Very wise

to define yourself. Instead of I am not good enough to get accepted, replace it with I am good enough. Teach your outer self to recognize the unlimited potential of your inner self. In this way, you imaginations can become reality. 45.- Stress and anxiety only exist in your mind

We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it, censor it, tinker with it...fictionalize it, in a word, and put it away on a shelf - your book, your romanced autobiography. We are all in the flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo sapiens.

We may compare this mad, deluded world to a company of poor, blind men, dancing about the brink of a very dangerous pit, but do not perceive it or see how each falls in one after another.

Skeptics of DID have generally not seen a real multiple, probably because alters, having been created by abuse, do not readily reveal themselves to practioners who are unwilling to accept their reality.

Wishes father thought, but they don't breed evidence.

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.

Just because you don't believe in something does not mean that it's not true.

has a knee-jerk tendency to avoid extremes as implausible, but 'fantasy' actively embraces them. It magnifies and clarifies the human condition.

a dream isn't a wish - it's an altered state of consciousness ...