Quotes About Reality

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

Life is a dream. We wake up when we die" ~ B. Habyarimana.

Anyone who is willing to work and is serious about it will certainly find a job. Only you must not go to the man who tells you this, for he has no job to offer and doesn't know anyone who knows of a vacancy. This is exactly the reason why he gives you such generous advice, out of brotherly love, and to demonstrate how little he knows the world.

Freedom is an illusion, but a valuable one.

I thought of you as a god, but now I see that you are nothing but a man with a man's weaknesses.

If this was a dream, he didn't want to wake up.

The therapist had been sympathetic and kind. "You have to decide how you want to spend the rest of your life. Isn't it possible that your hope that Danny is alive and will show up one day at your door is keeping you rooted in a fantasy?

It's time for someone to say it: You've got to lower your expectations.

Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.

Our Parusa or Universal Soul is an abiding reality. It is logical, but remains conceptual to our minds under we experience it;s realization within ourselves.

disturbances of the mind and emotions fade away, and we are able to see true reality.

Many intellectually developed people are still emotionally immature. If they have to face pains, they try to escape from them. They are seldom prepared to face that pain and to work through it when they are taken intensely into a posture. This practice brings them face to face with the reality of their bodies' natures. We must face up to our emotions, not run away from them. We do not do yoga just for enjoyment; we do it for ultimate emancipation.

Even that which is untrue, if accepted as true by the world, especially by the elders, becomes the truth. It is publicity-of a fault or virtue that bears fruit as ill repute or fame. The actual truth may earn its reward in the hereafter, but that is of no use here.

Complex numbers taught me on reasonable philosophy; that you can imagine anything what you don't have in real life.

The world is an abstract art. We see it as we want to see it. It is a garden of roses and it is also a forest of thorny bushes and poison oak.

Q: Is life a dream or a meditation? A: Life is a meditation when you know it is a dream.

Death, decay, negativity, inconsistency and imperfection are illusory superimpositions

The symptomatology of PTSD. In PTSD a traumatic event is not remembered and relegated to one's past in the same way as other life events. Trauma continues to intrude with visual, auditory, and/or other somatic reality on the lives of its victims. Again and again they relieve the life-threatening experiences they suffered, reacting in mind and body as though such events were still occurring. PTSD is a complex psychobiological condition.

You can't always be a leading lady.

Good thoughts, though God accept them, yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act.

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

A prolonged meditation on unseen realities is sufficiently difficult, and seems scarcely the occupation for which common human nature was intended.

Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.

Moms in fiction and memoir get a bad rap.