What is consciousness? Our brain simulates reality. So, our everyday experiences are a form of dreaming, which is to say, they are mental models, simulations, not the things they appear to be.

Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

From dawn to dusk I spent my time in the real world. Only in my dreams at night could I indulge my fantasies.

Whatever your difficulty, whatever your hardship in life: Dance and make the song you sing your prayer. Sing it courageously, and with each step strengthen yourself with the knowledge and wisdom of your elders, so...

life is a video game, only difference is that you don’t always get three chances!

No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality,...

It’s lies. It’s all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that’s all. People see what they think is there.

Because in the end, we die. It’s like Chekhov observed in so many of his plays: ‘in two hundred years, no one will even know we were here.

One must always account for the vagaries of truth.

They have their opinions, but we have the answers.

Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

He should be happy because he can think about the unhappiness of others!He’s stupid if he doesn’t know other people’s unhappiness is theirs,And isn’t cured from the outside,Because suffering isn’t like running out of ink,Or...

I was not looking for HIM, he was just always there, the little BOY! I have not seen HIM, because I did not want to see, but HE was standing next to my bed every...

Zihnimde ki dünya ile dışarıda ki dünya bir değil, ya bir uykumda başka dünya ya uyandım. “burası benim tabiatım değil” Ya da gerçekler rol değiştirmiş inanması kolay değil.

La espada que todo lo corta no te corta cuando te conviertes en la espada.

If strangers like one’s quote truly ,then it only means that the in-built message has enough depth,breadth, touch and connection with the life’s reality.

when you’re a kid, they tell you that it’s what’s on the inside that counts. Looks don’t matter . But that’s not true. Guys like Phoebus in The Hunchback, or Dorian, or the old Kyle...

I thought the morning would bring change. But I should have known that it doesn’t take that long for change to happen – it takes a second. A moment. In a single breath, reality as...

Sometimes I forget myself in a book. And when i have to stop reading it takes me a minute to remember where I am. Or who I am.

Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don’t want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and...

Reality is symbolicof an unseen insanity

In our world, to do what you want to do, you must first do what you have to do.

I don’t understand,” says Gerald, alone in his third- class carriage, “how railway trains and magic can go on at the same time.”And yet they do.

[R]eality and real people are too subtle and complicated for anybody’s typewriter, even Tolstoy’s, even yours, even mine.

Anything you imagine (inner world)will materialize into your life (outer world). It’s speed of materializing is determined by how much feeling and trust you give it, and how well you are able to recognize when...

We co-create our reality with others in unseen ways.

All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality.

We may be born equal but we do not prepare equally…

…I could never explain how the image and the reality merge, and how they somehow extend and beautify each other.

For sure, even the worst blow job is better than, say, sniffing the best rose … watching the greatest sunset. Hearing children laugh.

While we can certainly be mistaken at times about what is real, there is indeed a reality to know. Mistakes actually prove the point. We would not know there were such things as hallucinations or...

I have noticed that sometimes, our success, promotion and accomplishments become real when we say “no” to some things and act the right way. The potential that drives you to do that is called “self-discipline”.

no matter what

Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep your soul.

Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men before they were formulated by the minds of men. The Resurgence of Authority stands opposed to the...

If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing it.Becoming: an agony without an ending.The older I grow, the less I enjoy performing my little Hamlet....

You can theorise about the options you have but in reality they are very specific.

Why is it that when you awake to the world of realities you nearly always feel, sometimes very vividly, that the vanished dream has carried with it some enigma which you have failed to solve?

I’ve seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You’ll no longer be an external spectator to fiction...

People who want to climb mountains just like taking metaphors for real. So when I say I could murder for a mangosteen, I hope you don’t think I’m going to go out and do that.

En el caso concreto de México la literatura casi no tiene nada que ofrecer. En primer término porque su misión específica es reducida: se concreta a mostrar y no a remediar. Después, porque los tirajes...

It’s just that you’re about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to...

Reality wasn’t as important as people made it out to be; to Jude it was simply the physical state in which he found himself, an environment he had limited control over.

[…] I grew up out of that strange, dreamy childhood of mine and went into the world of reality. I met with experiences that bruised my spirit – but they never harmed my ideal world....

The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.

…people live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true… that is how they define reality. But what does it mean to be correct or true? Merely vague concepts… their reality may...

And it’s a disquieting thought that not even the past is done with, even that continues to change, as if in reality there is only one time, for everything, one time for every purpose under...

gold” beneath the false value systems of our societies, and we attempt to comfort ourselves with the notion that we have no power or responsibility for what is happening to our world. The reality is...

You are the unchanging manifesting as the changefulness

Language is a ladder that always falls short of reality.