Quotes about Reality

Heaven, for Jesus, wasn't less real, but more real.

Until you stop wishing things were different, accept the way they are, and take up the sole responsibility of doing something about it, nothing will change.

What is truth but to live for an idea?

I think you had better learn to control that imagination of yours,Anne, if you can't distinguish between what is real and what isnt.

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.

Religion, culture, education are all things that sound wonderful in theory. In practice, however, they are not so wonderful.

Everyone creates what he fears.

There is no holy life. There is no war between good and evil. There is no sin and no redemption. None of these things matter to the real you. But they all matter hugely to the false you, the one who believes in the separate self. You have tried to take your separate self, with all its loneliness and anxiety and pride, to the door of enlightenment. But it will never go through, because it is a ghost.

My body is a projection of my consciousness.

He (God) is right and always has been, because in reality God is only love.

Commit yourself to the possibility that everything you see around you is far less real than God. You want to see the truth "with all your heart, with all you soul, and with all your mind," as Jesus says. This is actually a commitment to joy.