Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of...

He asked me if I ever prayed– and I lied.Then he asked me if I ever got an answer, or a sign that my prayer was heard– and I told him the truth.”Yeah… me neither.”His...

Time spent in India has a extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal.

It is my conviction that, with the spread of true scientific culture, whatever may be the medium, historical, philological, philosophical, or physical, through which that culture is conveyed, and with its necessary concomitant, a constant...

People think we don’t give a toss about the game, but when I walked out of Windsor Park that night I felt lower than a snake’s belly. The reality is still there.

god is similar to the relation of the water of ocean to the waves of the ocean the sole Reality of the waves is the Water.

In the recumbence of depression, your information-gathering system collates its intelligence and reports to you these facts: (1) there is nothing to do; (2) there is nowhere to go; (3) there is nothing to be;...

A made desire to be more human, to be more normal, that’s what pushes me, these days – but as someone said the other say. ‘Trace, you’re going to have to face facts. You and...

Les optimistes et les pessimistes ont un grand défaut qui leur est commun : ils ont peur de la vérité

My son, my son. When I had my son I would explain all that to him when he was starry enough to like understand. But then I knew he would not understand or would not...

Do you really believe that the moon isn’t there when nobody looks?

Since we do in reality need one another(“it is not good for man to be alone”), then the failure ofthis need to appear as Need-love in consciousness – inother words, the illusory feeling that it...

Anyone can do whatever they want in life, this is our world to play in.

Real spirituality is about getting the bullshit out of your life and getting real.

He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knewit, with a sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent deliriumof his days and nights, the nightmare of swarming...

Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.

Theres a process of self doubt when things go wrong. Whether or not its personal or a friend in trouble, looking at ones self isn’t always the answer neither is seeking god. Just acception and...

It’s not going to be so easy to be yourself as speaking or advocating about it, but he who is truly determined and destined attains this coveted status.

Reality is what one makes it. And the more negative reality one nurtures and creates, the more of it one has.

What I aim to do is not so much learn the names of the shreds of creation that flourish in this valley, but to keep myself open to their meanings, which is to try to...

No opionions, just strongly held convictions.

It would be perfect if everyone who makes love, is in love, but this is simply an unrealistic expectation. I’d say 75 percent of the population of people who make love, are not in love,...

Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are...

Todo quiere decir dos cosas, y tú escoges la que te conviene.

In books there are chapters to separate out the moments, to show that time is going by and things are changing, and sometimes the parts even have titles that are full of promise—’The Meeting’, ‘Hope’,...

None of it is real, though, because reality lies in a different, more evanescent realm. These are only the names of some of the places in the archipelago of dreams. The true reality is the...

Words, no matter whether they are vocalized and made into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts, can cast an almost hypnotic spell upon you. You easily lose yourself in them, become hypnotized into implicitly believing...

Reality is complicated. There is no justification for all of the hasty conclusions.

If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality.

but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the RealWorld *hope* their own world to be—it isn’t a mirror, it’s an aspiration.

The physical world exists, but that’s only the paint and canvas; that’s only the instrument we use to make music; that’s only the stage where the play is performed.

When faced with unbridled wildness of reality, dinosaurs fall into fevered delusions of grandeur. In fits of madness, they recreate the world in their own overblown image, bull-dozing the wild and replacing it with a...

What ever you think, you can make it real.

I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this … I still love scribbling the word – WRITER – any time on a form, questionnaire, document asks for my occupation. Fine, I write...

Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

The awareness that seeks to know is the very object of its own seeking.

The reality is, I don’t think it’s going to matter.

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...