Reality Quotes - Page 31

• I have come to the conclusion that Tony Blair has finally gone mad ... he made assertions that are so jaw-droppingly and breathtakingly at variance with reality that he surely needs professional psychiatric help.

  Boris Johnson

  Mad, Needs, Gone

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• Nobody automatically believes in your dream. Nobody! You have to turn it into reality through your own sheer grit, bullheadedness and persistence.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Dream, Believe, Persistence

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• To those of us who are not theologians, does it matter whether a thing is ordained or merely allowed? Are events that seem out of control caused by God? Or does He allow them to occur at the hands of human beings? You can spend a lot of time pondering that one and end up pretty much where you started. In either case, the purpose remains the same - our sanctification. God is in the business of making us walking, breathing examples of the invisible reality of the presence of Christ in us.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Hands, Breathing, Events

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• Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system.

  Howard Gardner

  Children, Teaching, Body

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• In a sense it (Christianity) creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is righteousness and loving.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Thinking, Would Be

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Problem of Pain”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness - and one's mind becomes an organ one cannot trust any longer. It becomes what the mystics claim it to be: a tool of distortion.

  Ayn Rand

  Mind, Absolutism, Tools

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.35, Penguin

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• In this world of illusion, where at the end of the examination, we find everything to be of little importance, of little worth, if there is a sign of reality, of something one can depend upon, and in which one can recognize a sign of eternity, it is in the constancy of friendship.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  World, Examination, Littles

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• Every mind has its particular standard of good and bad, and of right and wrong. This standard is made by what one has experienced through life, by what one has seen or heard; it also depends upon one's belief in a certain religion, one's birth in a certain nation and origin in a certain race. But what can really be called good or bad, right or wrong, is what comforts the mind and what causes it discomfort. It is not true, although it appears so, that it is discomfort that causes wrongdoing. In reality, it is wrongdoing which causes discomfort, and it is right-doing which gives comfort.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Race, Giving, Mind

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• A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Doe, States, Reverie

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• Space is still filled with the noise of destruction and annihilation, the shouts of self-assurance and arrogance, the weeping of despair and helplessness. But round about the horizon the eternal realities stand silent in their age-old longing. There shines on them already the first mild light of the radiant fulfillment to come. From afar sound the first notes as of pipes and voices, not yet discernable as a song or melody. It is all far off still, and only just announced and foretold. But it is happening, today.

  Alfred Delp

  Song, Self, Voice

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• We are now at the point in the age of global warming hysteria where the IPCC global warming theory has crashed into the hard reality of observations.

  Roy Spencer

  Hysteria, Age, Global Warming

  "What climate change? Fewer people than EVER believe the world is really warming up". www.express.co.uk. September 19, 2013.

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• Observe the reality as it is. As it is, not as you wish it to be. Perhaps your breath is deep. Perhaps your breath is shallow. Perhaps you breathed in through the left nostril. Perhaps you breathed in through the right nostril. It makes no difference.

  S. N. Goenka

  Differences, Wish, Shallow

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• Art is an escape from reality.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Art Is

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• Fleeing persecution is not a crime. And we do not seek to pander to a noisy, tiny minority who will never embrace modern multicultural Australia. But there are important truths we must face. There is a history and a reality that we cannot ignore. The challenge before us is real, the questions we grapple with as elemental as life and death.

  Bill Shorten

  Real, Australia, Life And Death

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• There are lots of imposters in this earth, and to very first there always comes a second, to every reality there always come a fantasy, and the fantasy wants to come and live the life of the reality

  Peter Tosh

  Live Life, Earth, Want

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• All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have any reality, can be nothing else, because there is nothing else.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Self, Saint, Lambs

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• I have been asked many times, Why do you laugh so much and make so many jokes? I become serious sometimes-when I have a stomachache! The Lord is all blissfulness. He is the reality behind all that exists. He is the goodness, the truth in everything. You are His incarnations. That is what is glorious. The nearer you are to Him, the less you will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from Him, the more will long faces come. The more we know of Him, the more misery vanishes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Long, Laughing, Faces

  Swami Vivekananda (196?). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”

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• My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Shields, Shyness, Grows

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• The Internet is light at the end of the tunnel. I don't care if it's being used to peddle pornography, I don't care if it's being trivialized in a thousand ways. Anything can be trivialized. The important point is that it is leveling the playing field of global society. It is creating de-facto an entirely new set of political realities. None of the constipated, oligarchic structures that are resisting this were ever asked. Their greed betrayed them into investing in this in the first place without ever fully grasping what the implications of it were for their larger agenda.

  Terence McKenna

  Tunnels, Light, Creating

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• The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being.

  Terence McKenna

  Mind, Primaries, Edges

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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• If you go to Paris you know more about reality than people who don't. If you smoke DMT you know more about reality than people who don't.

  Terence McKenna

  Paris, Dmt, People

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• Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness. . . . Would that we could send robots who could film these psychedelic realities. . . . The presence of so much beauty is an argument to me that truth cannot be far away.

  Terence McKenna

  Ordinary, Robots, Psychedelic

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• Because I believe psychedelics are a kind of higher dimensional sectioning of reality, I think they give the kind of stereoscopic vision necessary to hold the entire hologram of what's happening in your mind. The old paradigm is gone.

  Terence McKenna

  Believe, Thinking, Giving

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• For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.

  Terence McKenna

  Years, World, Psychedelic

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• The deepest reality you are aware of is the one from which you draw your power.

  Deepak Chopra

  Draws

  Deepak Chopra (1997). “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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