Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable force because to admit it is to admit that most of our political gyrations, religious dogmas, social ambitions, and financial ploys are not merely counterproductive but trivial. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: politics reality religion dogma purpose change ambition evolution triviality counterproductive Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The world is full of hundreds of beautiful things we can never possibly have time to discover, and there is no time to be unkind or envious or ungenerous, and no sense in enslaving the mind to the trivialities of the moment. For you can be equal to the greatness of life only by marching with it; not by seeking love but by giving it, nor seeking to be understood but learning to understand. And when it is all over, there will be an agony of remorse because one spared the effort and did not make more of that little span of opportunity; and knowing reality at last, who knows but that one will look back with unassuageable regret upon one's pitiful little faith. —Vivienne de Watteville More about this quote Tags: understanding love reality kindness beauty learning discovery regret faith loss effort greatness opportunity generosity envy agony remorse Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. —Soren Kierkegaard More about this quote Tags: reality power change facts denial Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true. —Winston Churchill More about this quote Tags: truth life reality world gossip Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The possible ranks higher than the actual. —Martin Heidegger More about this quote Tags: reality possibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. —Anaïs Nin More about this quote Tags: reality perception self bias self-delusion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities. —Dr. Seuss More about this quote Tags: life reality laughter nonsense fantasy telescopes Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Spiritual awakening is frequently described as a journey to the top of a mountain. We leave our attachments and our worldliness behind and slowly make our way to the top. At the peak we have transcended all pain. The only problem with this metaphor is that we leave all the others behind. . . . In the process of discovering our true nature, the journey goes down, not up. . . . Instead of transcending the suffering of all creatures, we move toward the turbulence and doubt. . . . We explore the reality and unpredictability of insecurity and pain, and we try not to push it away. If it takes years, if it takes lifetimes, we will let it be as it is. At our own pace, without speed or aggression, we move down and down and down. With us move millions of others, our companions in awakening from fear. At the bottom we discover water, the healing water of compassion. Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die. —Pema Chödrön More about this quote Tags: truth spirituality love reality compassion pain death suffering doubt aggression transcendence healing attachments worldliness turbulence insecurity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists? —Woody Allen More about this quote Tags: reality fear humor dreams Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The greatest mystery is in unsheathed reality itself. —Eudora Welty More about this quote Tags: reality mystery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
God is not a continent, like Antarctica, lying off somewhere, inert, without relation to human life till some Scott or Amundsen or Byrd finds him. God is not a mountain peak to which travelers must go and which they climb step by step. God is like the air we breathe or the earth beneath our feet. To discover God is simply to awaken to reality. It is like a plant discovering the sun and the rain that drew it from the earth or like children discovering the parents who gave them birth and love and nurture. —Luther A. Weigle More about this quote Tags: love life reality God children birth earth air awakening Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence. —George Steiner More about this quote Tags: reality silence language Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. —Suzanne Necker More about this quote Tags: reality clear-seeing change luck Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before. —Margaret Halsey More about this quote Tags: reality power change creation commitment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This was the dawn of plastic eating in America. . . . We doted on Velveeta. Spam. Canned ravioli. Instant puddings. Instant anything. The farther a thing was from the texture, flavor, and terrifying unpredictability of real food, the better. —Shirley Abbott More about this quote Tags: reality USA America food better flavor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email