Nature Of Reality Quotes

“Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.”
― Robin Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny

“You can't understand beauty without peace of mind and you can't get close to the truth without fear.”
― Hassan Blasim, The Iraqi Christ

“Surreal reality. Real surreality.
Imagination Opium. Reality Morphium.”
― Talismanist Giebra, Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series.

“As for my own religious practice, I try to live my life pursuing what I call the Bodhisattva ideal. According to Buddhist thought, a Bodhisattva is someone on the path to Buddhahood wo dedicates themselves entirely to helping all other sentient beings towards release from suffering. The word Bodhisattva can best be understood by translating the Bodhi and Sattva separately: Bodhi means the understanding or wisdom of the ultimate nature of reality, and a Sattva is someone who is motivated by universal compassion. The Bodhissatva ideal is thus the aspiration to practise infinite compassion with infinite wisdom. releasing sentient beings from suffering.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama

“All reality is loss and all loss is eternal. There is no other kind. And that reality into which we inquire must first contain ourselves. And what are we? Ten percent biology and ninety percent nightrumor.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“Spiderwebs are images of the nonlinear, of the many directions in which something might go, the many sources for it[.]”
― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

“The madhouse is just a thin line away for each of us. What contains us? Only lies. Lies we cannot even tell each other, for we will not understand them. They are deeper than what we will allow ourselves to see.”
― Søren Sørenson, Mystical Mushroom Musings

“But in the end, it’s all just a moment, a flash, a sad, joyful, melancholy blink. So embrace it, live it, don’t let it all just go by like it never was and never needed to be.”
― Søren Sørenson, Mystical Mushroom Musings

“...the Other World has different things in it. Words such as "Manchester" and "police station" have no meaning here. Because these things do not exist. Words such as "river" and "mountain" do have meaning but only because those things are depicted in the Statues. I suppose that these things must exist in the Older World. In this World the Statues depict things that exist in the Older World.'
'Yes,' said Raphael. 'Here you can only see a representation of a river or a mountain, but in our world--the other world--you can see the actual river and the actual mountain.'
This annoyed me. 'I do not see why you say I can ONLY see a representation in this World,' I said with some sharpness. 'The word "only" suggests a relationship of inferiority. You make it sound as if the Statue was somehow inferior to the thing itself. I do not see that that is the case at all. I would argue that the Statue is superior to the thing itself, the Statue being perfect, eternal and not subject to decay.'
'Sorry,' said Raphael. 'I didn't mean to disparage your world.'
There was a silence.
'What is the Other World like?' I asked.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“The world is a good place. Even with pain in it. Even with death.”
― Anna Smith Spark, The Court of Broken Knives

“Illusion is the reality, reality is an illusion.”
― Phantast

“There is no good counterargument for digital ontology – discernible differences lie at the baseline of any phenomenon and interaction. All possible universes are arguably run on the ultimate mathematical code. The 'Book of Nature' is written in the language of mathematics. All realities are observer-dependent and code-theoretic.”
― Alex M. Vikoulov, Theology of Digital Physics: Phenomenal Consciousness, The Cosmic Self & The Pantheistic Interpretation of Our Holographic Reality

“The three of them and the five of us, we are as weather is upon the planet. I breathe them and they breathe me. Clouds and breezes, lightning strikes and claps of thunder, we are the land, the air, the motion of existence, confirmed by sound and light and change.”
― Laurie Perez, The Cosmos of Amie Martine

“An evening dream--everything must have been an illusion;
I cannot explain clearly even one part of what I saw.
Yet in the dream it seemed as if the truth were in front of my eyes.
This morning, awake, is it not the same dream?”
― Ryokan / translated and introduced by John Stevens, One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryōkan

“Are we truly awake while experiencing the tangible world around us? Or are we adrift in a dream flux of illusions, our senses hoodwinking us at every turn?”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Quantum physics, the study of the universe at its most
minute level, unveils a startlingly different picture from
what today’s hyper-materialist humans so glibly dub reality.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“The world we see ‘out there’ is a reflection of our cleverly molded shared consciousness, our collective belief installed through manipulation of our mimetic desire, not a given ‘thing’ that can’t be changed. This means, as in the adage, that we can heal the world only if we heal ourselves.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality