Gautama Buddha Quotes About Reality

• All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.

  Gautama Buddha

  Reality, Facing Reality, Unhappiness

• The fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much less sons, land, or money.

  Gautama Buddha

  Son, Reality, Land

• All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.

  Gautama Buddha

  Reality, Description, Hypothesis

• The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does not correspond to any reality.

  Gautama Buddha

  Self Esteem, Reality, Doe

• I knew that most people never see this reality because they attach to the material aspect of the world. Illusions of self and other fill their vision. I also realized there are those with little dust limiting their vision.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Reality, Self

• The four catagories of existance, non-existance, both existance and non-existance, and neither existance nor non-existance, are spiderwebs among spiderwebs which can never take hold of the enormous bird of reality

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Reality, Bird

• I manifested in a dreamlike way to dreamlike beings and gave a dreamlike Dharma, but in reality I never taught and never actually came.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Reality, Way

• When your mind is set in meditative equipoise, you can see reality exactly as it is

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiration, Reality, Mind

• After much seeking for truth and knowledge the profoundness of reality came to me with a clarity never before known.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Reality, Clarity

• The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.

  Gautama Buddha

  Dream, Buddhist, Distance

• Do not close your eyes before suffering. Find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means, Including personal contact and visits, images, sound. By such means, awaken yourself and others to the reality of suffering in the world.

  Gautama Buddha

  Mean, Eye, Reality

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