Carpe DiemBy Edna StewartShakespeare, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman did it, why can’t I?The words of Horace, his laconic phrase. Does it amuse me or frighten me?Does it rub salt in an old wound? Horace, Shakespeare,...

Reality is neurology, and is not absolute.

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Pure sensism leads inevitably to universal doubt; if reality is in the end reducible to sensible appearance, then, since this is in a state of perpetual flux and self-contradiction, no kind of certitude will any...

I have a theory that I really want my kids to know – the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot...

We used to do coke, till “Just Say No” put the stuff out of reach. Now it’s crank. Meth. The monster. It’s a bitch on the body, but damn do you fly.

Do not let your good ideas to spend your brain energy, do it with all the effort because the shadow of the success can become a reality only with hard work.

There’s also a possibility that the landlord is in there right now, wearing women’s undergarments. Or a drug addict is inside stealing jewelry.Or a boatload of recent Chinese immigrants without a television watching Russia play...

In our dreams every man and woman are amazingly perfect, but in reality they have imperfections, so accept it without judgement.

The goings-on in Mind does not depend on what exist in reality. Rather, it depends on what you believe what exists in reality.

Change happens for youthe moment you want somethingmore than you fear it.

Synchronicity is the soul’s reminder of authorship.

If you distance yourself from reality and just cling to cliches about democracy find yourself a different job than analyzing politics

Reading is a sage way to bump up against life. Reading may be an escape, but it is not an escape from my own life and problems. It is an escape from the narrow boundaries...

Reality is what you embrace

When her grandchildren would whine with words resembling ‘I’m hungry’, my Oma would tenderly correct us with ‘No, you feel like eating’ which to me seemed be the same thing. Oma had survived Amsterdam during...

The world is a cancer eating itself away… I am think that when the great silence descends upon all and everywhere music will at last triumph. When into the womb of time everything is again...

The so-called spiritual inquiry must necessarily address questions of authority and power since both individuals and the organizations that represent them generally seek legitimacy from hegemonic interpretations of truth and reality. The only way to...

Haters hate that’s what they do. Gossiper’s gossip. Doers do. Talkers talk. Workers work. Lovers love. Singers sing, worshipers worship. Fighters fight, winners win. Believers believe that’s what they do.Just find out what are you....

One in a million cases; such comforting odds, except when you were the one

I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no...

is not a wishgrantingfactory,

I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mother, with my mother’s death, with losing my mother and not being able to get her...

Betrug und Schönheit der Sprache bestehen darin, dass sie das ganze Universum zu ordnen scheint und uns zu der Annahme verführt, wir lebten in Anbetracht eines rationalen Raumes, einer möglichen Harmonie. Doch da Wörter uns...

The mind is just a delusion not a reality. If the materials are perception of our mind, then why we cannot turn into handsome guys and beautiful ladies without putting a hundred grams of makeup...

Things imagined are as real as things seen.

When people are facing real hardships in their lives, they have no time to invent imaginary ones.

Nor does the being hungry prove that we have bread.

Social reality is so complicated that, once you join one team or the other, you become specialized in detecting certain patterns, but you become blind to other patterns.

Her reality was, so to speak, a crowbar to open the lid on what had been sealed, which is the human dimension. The media and politics don’t engage with death very well. And Bush has...

Ecology is beginning to slowly shift focus with tentative explorations of what the world would look like if process, rather than matter were the basis for reality What if we defined a species in terms...

Younger love, it seemed, was mainly about the idea of potential–the illusion that magical transformations were bound to occur when the person you think you love has a miraculous impromptu awakening after some metaphorical lightning...

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations

It’s why you need other fingers, other tongues. Only other people can make you feel real.

Russel /…/ antar att planeten har blivit skapad för några minuter sedan, >utrustad< med en mänsklighet som >minns< ett illusoriskt förflutet.

Nothing exists; all is a dream. God—man—the world—the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars—a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space—and you!

Because ‘Call The Midwife’ is a gentle drama, not a documentary, it’s not appropriate to portray Sister Monica Joan’s condition in all its brutal reality.

Pain is something that’s common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren’t engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.

An odd thing about perception is that when we identify some new thing with one or more of our five senses, it is not really, immutably real — it is a passing will o’ the...

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.

Escape from reality. In some instances, dissociation induces people to imagine that they have some kind of mastery over intractable environmental difficulties. Dissociation is often implicated in magical thinking or self-induced trance states. This aspect...

She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines.

If we lived close to nature in an agricultural society, the seasons as metaphor and fact would continually frame our lives. But the master metaphor of our era does not come from agriculture – it...

God loves ‘stuff;’ after all He made it

I often find human behavior amusing. Like having a full refrigerator of food to eat yet buying fast food instead. If you learn to conquer the two big “N” words. Niceties vs Necessities. You might...

I have no doubt that your acceptance of Christ coincided with some very positive changes in your life. Perhaps you now love other people in a way that you never imagined possible. You may even...

Perhaps this is why one reads fiction to begin with – to live a more interesting reality than one’s daily life.

Normal is an ideal. But it’s not reality. Reality is brutal, it’s beautiful, it’s every shade between black and white, and it’s magical. Yes, magical. Because every now and then, it turns nothing into something.

Science and religion both make claims about the fundamental workings of the universe. Although these claims are not a priori incompatible (we could imagine being brought to religious belief through scientific investigation), I will argue...