Reality Quotes - Page 32

• Psychedelics are actually a kind of miraculous reality that can stand the test of objective examination.

  Terence McKenna

  Examination, Tests, Kind

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• Cultures are virtual realities made of language.

  Terence McKenna

  Culture, Language, Made

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• What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in the mathematical sense.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Perspective, Use

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• I started out in psychedelic drugs, and people said it was a flight from reality. It still is a flight from reality, but I think reality is now a bit more scary than the drugs we used to fly from it, so long ago.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Long Ago, People

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• We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being dropped into our laps for us to create human-machine interfacing, control of genetic material, redefinition of social reality, re engineering of languages, revisioning of the planetary ecology, all these things fall upon us.

  Terence McKenna

  Fall, Engineering, Years

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• Machine thinking is the opposite of mindfulness. If we're really engaged in mindfulness when walking along the path to the village, then we will consider the act of each step we take as an infinite wonder, and a joy will open our hearts like a flower, enabling us to enter the world of reality.

  Nhat Hanh

  Flower, Heart, Thinking

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• When all hope is lost, pig-headed refusal to acknowledge reality will always save the day.

  Andy Ihnatko

  Pigs, Refusal, Lost

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• A worldview is not the same things a formal philosophy, otherwise it would only be for philosophers. Even ordinary people have a set of convictions about how reality functions and how they should live. Some convictions are conscious while others are unconscious but together they form a consistent picture of reality.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Philosophy, People, Together

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• Reality television, which turned its eye on people who were doing nothing but being themselves, was the perfect expression of this trend [of narcissism]. Let's look at ourselves, it said. Aren't we fascinating?

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Eye, Expression, People

  Alexander McCall Smith (2007). “Espresso Tales”, p.10, Anchor

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• The time has come to put into practice the charity taught by the masters and priests of all times. The words said between the pigeons' cooing under the sacred porticos of all the temples should now turn into concrete reality.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Practice, Charity, Sacred

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• When consciousness has awakened it is not something sensational or spectacular. It's simply a reality as natural as the one of a tree that has growth slowly and developed without starts or sensational stuffs. Nature is Nature.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Tree, Growth, Stuff

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• The pain does not bring perfection because the pain is from Satan. The Great Divine Reality is happiness, peace, abundance and perfection. The Great Reality can't create the pain. What is perfect can't create pain. What is perfect only conceives happiness.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Pain, Perfect, Doe

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• True marketing starts...with the customer, his demographics, his realities, his needs, his values. It does not ask, "What do we want to sell?" It asks, "What does the customer want to buy?"

  Peter Drucker

  Marketing, Doe, Needs

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• Dying is like diving into a deep lake on a hot day. There's the shock of that sharp, cold change, the pain of it for a second, and then accepting is a swim in reality. But after so many times, even the shock wears off.

  Richard Bach

  Pain, Lakes, Swim

  Richard Bach (2013). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.143, Random House

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• The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.

  John Berger

  Perspective, Addresses, Contradiction

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• Trans people deserve something vital. They deserve your respect... If you want to call me names, make jokes, doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it. But for the thousands of kids out there who are coming to terms with being true to who they are, they shouldn't have to take it.

  Bruce Jenner

  Kids, Names, People

  Caitlyn Jenner's ESPYs Speech, www.businessinsider.com. July 16, 2015.

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• Our view of reality is like a chart of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost.

  Alan Watts

  Views, Sea, Lost

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• Our view of reality is like a map with which to negotiate the terrain of life. If the map is true and accurate, we will generally know how to get there. If the map is false and inaccurate, we generally will be lost.

  M. Scott Peck

  Views, Maps, Lost

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• You know what I like to do? I love waking up early, making them breakfast, taking them to school, having time in the morning with them. With six kids, it's like a reality show.

  Allan Houston

  Morning, School, Kids

  "Allan Houston's biggest swish". Interview with Jared Zwerling, www.espn.com. October 19, 2011.

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• Even time is a concept. In reality we are always in the eternal present. The past is just a memory, the future just an image or thought. All our stories about past and future are only ideas, arising in the moment. Our modern culture is so tyrannized by goals, plans, and improvement schemes that we constantly live for the future. But as Aldous Huxley reminded us in his writings, "An idolatrous religion is one in which time is substituted for eternity...the idea of endless progress is the devil's work, even today demanding human sacrifice on an enormous scale.

  Jack Kornfield

  Memories, Writing, Sacrifice

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• God teaches me about reality, so when he tells me to do something, I do, because I'm led to.

  Lauryn Hill

  Teach

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• We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality.

  Lauryn Hill

  Icons

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• Should and should not's are the furthest form or non-reality there is even the best scientists can't track what does.

  John Phillips

  Track, Doe, Scientist

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• The boundaries of a person's reality often do not change until that person forsakes what he or she feels confident in and then goes blindly with faith.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Boundaries, Feels, Persons

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• The world is mental in some way that we do not yet understand, but that which we're edging toward understanding. And the world is made of language. I can't say that enough. Whenever we get into these discussions about reality, or effects in space and time, we are operating outside this assumption that the world is made of language.

  Terence McKenna

  Space, Understanding, World

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