Reality Quotes - Page 6

• It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

  Philip K. Dick

  Inspirational, Life, Insanity

  Philip K. Dick (2007). “Vintage PKD”, p.169, Vintage

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• Reality is when you pay the rent. Get caught in traffic or your car breaks down. Really it's an AM/FM sort of thing. You've got reality and then there's the miraculous and the transcendent. And once you start, time stops.

  Carolyn See

  Car, Pay, Breaking Down

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• Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.

  Langdon Brown Gilkey

  Art, Opaque, Subjectivity

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• We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach to show aspects of reality.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Ideas, Tools

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• The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.

  Rollo May

  Firsts, Moments, Constructive

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.200, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There is just no end to reality. You can keep going closer into it, but you never ever come out the other end.

  Joseph Raffael

  Ends, Keep Going

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• Quietly affirm that you will define your own reality from now on and that your definition will be based on your inner wisdom

  Wayne Dyer

  Wisdom, Definitions

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• Never try to stop the thoughts.
  If you try to stop the thoughts they will become bigger and greater and they will win. Because the mind appears to be very powerful.
  Yet in reality the mind does not exist.
  There is no mind.
  There is no such thing as a mind.
  So when you sit in the silence you observe, you watch, you become the witness.

  Robert Adams

  Powerful, Winning, Silence

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• It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to reality will happen sometime other than now. But as long as we continue to think in terms of time we will deceive ourselves. The you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened.
  
  Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn't exist?

  Adyashanti

  Time, Thinking, Long

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• One Zen master said, The whole universe is my true personality. This is a very wonderful saying... If you want to see what you truly are, open the window, and everything you see is in fact the expression of your inner reality. Can you embrace all of it?

  Adyashanti

  Expression, Personality, Want

  Adyashanti (2011). “Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering”, p.220, Sounds True

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• Important days don't look like anything special when they start. Invariably, the sun rises and people wake up. Coffee is swilled and eggs are swallowed. Everybody goes about the business of acting like their lives matter and then, no matter how important the events of the day end up being, the sun invariably sets. The sun rose before the soldiers stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, and the sun set after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed. Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective.

  Josh Lieb

  Beach, Real, Coffee

  Josh Lieb (2009). “I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President”, p.157, Penguin

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• Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

  Graham Greene

  Literature, Century

  Graham Greene (1970). “The Collected Edition: Our man in Havana”

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• Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

  Ralph Marston

  Inspirational, Life, Motivation

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• Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable.

  Cyril Connolly

  History, Drug, Unendurable

  1944 The Unquiet Grave, pt.1.

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• Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

  Calvin S. Hall

  Truth, Thinking, Able

  Calvin S. Hall (1979). “A Primer of Freudian Psychology”

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• The Work is merely four questions; it's not even a thing. It has no motive, no strings. It's nothing without your answers. These four questions will join any program you've got and enhance it. Any religion you have - they'll enhance it. If you have no religion, they will bring you joy. And they'll burn up anything that isn't true for you. They'll burn through to the reality that has always been waiting.

  Byron Katie

  Joy, Waiting, Answers

  "Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life". Book by Byron Katie, 2002.

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• I accept reality and dare not question it.

  Walt Whitman

  Accepting, Dare, Accepting Reality

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.30, NYU Press

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• Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

  Mason Cooley

  Disappointment, Names, Giving

  "City Aphorisms: Ninth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1992.

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• Reality is a sliding door.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Doors, Sliding Doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.80, Harvard University Press

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• For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspirational, Nature, Science

  Rogers Commission Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident appendix (1986)

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  You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

  Malcolm X

  Inspirational, Peace, Patriotic

  Malcolm X (1990). “Malcolm X on Afro-American History”, Pathfinder Press

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• Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.

  Hob Broun

  Realism

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• Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

  J. G. Ballard

  Writing, Doe, Needs

  "Inner Landscape". Interview with Robert Lightfoot and David Pendleton, www.jgballard.ca. October 30, 1970.

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• It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between happens and is, on the one hand, and ought, on the other hand.

  Wolfgang Kohler

  Differences, Hands, Sometimes

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• What is reality anyway! It's nothing but a collective hunch.

  Jane Wagner

  Hunches, Collectives

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