Quotes about Reality

We partake of the ideal but we also make poo.

Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life.

The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.

Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind, you call it, the orange would not be seen or heard or smelled or tasted or even mentally noticed, it's actually, that orange, depending on your mind to exist! Don't you see that? By itself it's a no-thing, it's really mental, it's seen only of your mind. In other words it's empty and awake.

I never dwelt on the dark farcical furious real life of this roaring working world, wow.

I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.

When it is recognized that there is nothing beyond what is seen of the mind itself, the discrimination of being and non-being ceases and, as there is thus no external world as the object of perception, nothing remains but the solitude of Reality.

Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life. I stumbled haggardly out of the station; I had no more control.

I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other