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• All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness.  Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are reality. That is a mistake.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Mistake, Thinking, Expression

  "Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen". Book by Shunryū Suzuki. Chapter: "Letters From Emptiness", p. 33, 2002.

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• One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Death, Survival

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• The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams.

  Auguste Rodin

  Inspirational, Dream, Ambitious

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• Everything is self-evident.

  Rene Descartes

  Self, Evident

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• I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

  Jimmy Wales

  Thinking

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• Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Source, Found, Deep Ecology

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• If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.

  Byron Katie

  Cat, Trying, Different

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.156, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Reality manifests itself as constant and objective - independent of us, but as changeable in space and time. Consequently, its reflection in us contains both properties. Mixed up in our mind, these properties are confused and we do not have a proper image of reality.

  Piet Mondrian

  Confused, Independent, Reflection

  Piet Mondrian, Harry Holtzman, Martin S. James (1986). “The new art--the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian”, Twayne Pub

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  I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Faith, Peace

  "50 years after receiving Nobel Prize, do Martin Luther King's peace prophecies still resonate?", www.foxnews.com. October 12, 2014.

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• There is no reality except the one contained within us.

  Hermann Hesse

  Philosophy, Unreal, Demian

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Dream, May, Tire

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2009). “The Blythes Are Quoted”, p.268, Penguin Canada

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• You have to know the reality and the reality is that we are eternal.

  Deepak Chopra

  Eternal, Knows

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• As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Wisdom

  Address to Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin, 27 Jan. 1921

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• Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.

  Robert Heller

  Love, Inspirational, Education

  Robert Heller (1984). “The Supermanagers: Managing for Success, the Movers and the Doers, the Reasons Why”, New York : E.P. Dutton

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• Reality is obtained not by imitation, but by producing the sense of nature.

  Robert Henri

  Imitation

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.239, Basic Books

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• We can transform reality to the extent that we influence what happens in consciousness and thus free ourselves from the threats and blandishments of the outside world.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  World, Consciousness, Influence

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• Reality is permeated, indeed flooded, with divine creativity, nourishment, and care.

  Marcus Borg

  Creativity, Care, Divine

  Marcus Borg (1998). “Conflict, Holiness, and Politics in the Teachings of Jesus”, p.243, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Art Is, Conform

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• We ourselves are not an illusory part of Reality; rather are we Reality itself illusorily conceived.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Illusory

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• Love is reality, fear is an illusory concept created in your mind.

  Marcus Thomas

  Love, Fear, Mind

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• There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Literature, Intangible, Interpreter

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• There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Art, Abstract Thinking

  Pablo Picasso (1964*). “Picasso and Man”

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• An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Motivational, Respect, Kings

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

  Edward Albee

  Truth, Writing, Opposites

  Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.48, Da Capo Press

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• It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Inspirational, Truth, Philosophy

  "The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet" (1892).

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