I Quotes
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“In reality, the only true model of a successful woman was the Divine Sarah.”
Source: I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters
“In reality, the outer instruments (hands, feet, eyes, etc) are not the hindrance (for liberation); it is the inner instrument (mind, intellect, chit and ego) that is obstructive.”
“In reality the Spirit of Guidance may be pictured as one thread; and all the great masters of humanity are like the beads on that thread. One spirit and many individualities; one soul and many personalities; one wisdom and many teachers who have expounded wisdom according to their own personality. But at the same time, wisdom always being one, they cannot be compared with different scientists. For scientists, when they have discovered something new, say they have made a new discovery; but the prophets have never said that they had made a new discovery. They have always said, “What those who came before me perceived I perceive, and those who come after thousands of years will perceive the same.” Yet in spite of that it is always new, for every moment has its new joy. As Hafiz says, “Sing, my soul, a new song that every new moment inspires in you.” Once the soul awakens, it begins to see that truth is always new and renews the soul, giving it perpetual youth. When one finds differences between the teachers of humanity, these are only in the lives they lived. But no matter what their life was, whether they were kings or faqirs, whether they walked or rode on an elephant’s back, whether they were on a throne or in mountain caves or in deserts, they all had the same experience: realization. They might appear to be comfortable and rejoicing, but they heard the same note which others heard in tortures. Those who were kings such as Solomon and David, and those who were sages such as Krishna and Buddha, all these different souls had the same realization, the same philosophy. There could never be an argument if they were all to meet. But they are not meant to meet because they are all one. It was the Spirit of Guidance which manifested through all these different names and forms.”
Source: The Heart of Sufism: Essential Writings of Hazrat Inayat Khan
“In reality, the true painter, as you know, possesses within himself—in his muscles, his sensibility, even in his thinking—the golden number or numbers and the laws of color; he possesses them, he has earned them, he makes them live through everything he experiences and sees, not just on the canvas: his work is therefore both useful and universal.”
Source: A Night of Serious Drinking
“In reality the universe has no geometry.”
“In reality, the Us-and-Them or I-and-Thou dichotomies do not exist. There is only one universal We - one human family united by the capacity to feel compassion and to demand equal justice for all.”
Source: Black Like Me
“In reality, the way to topple a dictator is found within ourselves.”
Source: How to Dismantle a Dictatorship
“In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.”
“In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.”
“In reality the world is made of thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives bumping into each other, trying to avoid each other, and discovering each other in the same unlikely teashop in Vancouver. There is an unavoidability to this process. It's not even coincidence. It's just the way the world works, with no regard for individuals or propriety.”
Source: Anansi Boys
“In reality there are no limitations. They are vibrant and changeable to whatever form you want them to take to realise your goals.”
Source: Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
“In reality there are no others, and -helping yourself you help everybody else.”
“In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realization, the person ceases.”
Source: I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it's all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.”
Source: The essence of Alan Watts
“In reality, there are probably people out there who don't fully know themselves yet or think that being a man means you have to only like women, which isn't necessary at all... we can like whoever we want. If they treat us well, make us blush, or give us butterflies, we have the freedom to choose who we want to love.”
“In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.”
“In reality there is no normal. Normal is something people have agreed to invent so we have something to compare ourselves to. Normal should be the least of your worries.”
Source: School Spirit
“In reality, there is no person who can be absolutely selfish or selfless. You can’t be selfless without being selfish. You can’t give anything to another person, unless you first earn it yourself. Hence, the act of giving is intimately connected with the act of earning. The more you take from the world, the more you can give. Bill Gates is the most charitable person in the world today because he has also taken the most from the world.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“In reality, there is no scientific or religious approach to curing poverty. Even some charity organizers end up taking all the donations intended for the less fortunate.”
“In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper currency.”
Source: A New Banking System: the Needful Capital for Rebuilding the Burnt District
“In reality, there is no such thing as enemies. Just a bunch of people we do not agree with.”
“In reality there is no such thing as someone being able to “stay permanently” in the Self. No one has ever done it: the Buddha couldn’t do it, neither could Christ do it. Rather, the Self has been recognized as what we are, and it is effortlessly and timelessly perfect, always. In truth, there is no actual “in and out” of the Self, no fluctuation—for these are seen to arise within the immutable awareness.”
Source: Vaster Than Sky, Greater Than Space
“In reality there is nothing to fear in the present. Fear is projected onto the present by memory.”
“In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself. You will see it perhaps often in this History. For even if I could conceive that I had compleatly overcome it, I should probably be proud of my Humility.”
Source: The Autobiography and Other Writings
“In reality, there is power struggle in every community, no matter how small it may appear before your senses.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.”
Source: The Age of Innocence
“In reality things reveal nothing to us. It is people who, by looking into at things, discover a way of penetrating the Soul of the World.”
“In reality this is the very reverse of what we are told about the biblical God, who opens up freedom for us, who lets us make our own history, who goes with us on the more or less unheard-of adventures that we concoct.”
“In reality, those who cheat are indeed the ones who get cheated. Those who are cheated will gain experience and develop (spiritually) in the process. Only money earned dishonestly will be taken away (by nature) from one; rightfully earned money will be put to good use!”
“In reality, though, almost all voters now had their minds made up. You didn’t need to persuade them of whom to vote for — indeed, you couldn’t persuade them of whom to vote for. What you needed to do was excite the group of them who, if they were going to vote, were going to vote for you. Those people had to register, they had to remember where their polling place was, they had to take time out of their day to go cast a ballot. America isn’t like Australia, where voting is compulsory. We make it both optional and, in many places, difficult, so a winning campaign needs not just supporters but motivated supporters.”
Source: Why We're Polarized
“In reality, though, most of the time we don’t choose the best option—we choose the first reasonable option, a strategy known as satisficing.”
Source: Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
“in reality we are one and all from the unthinkable first to the no less unthinkable last glued together in a vast imbrication of flesh without breach or fissure”
Source: How it is
“In reality, we do not believe in reality, we believe in the illusion of reality.”
“In reality, we live in every one. Deep down there is a rose in every heart.”
Source: Enlightenment Step by Step
“In reality, we live in everyone. I live in you. You live in me. There is no gap, no distance. We all are eternally one.”
“In reality, what difference is there between a flower and our imagination? There is none truly, for the world is a living pulsation, and that pulsation is in everything.”
“In reality, what we call spirit is our universal consciousness.”
“In reality, where you are in life is where you actually want to be. This is because you have, all through the process made choices that affect your progress towards achieving your goal.” ?” From The Kindle Ebook What Faith Has Taught Me”
Source: What Faith Has Taught Me: Spiritual Insights
“In reality, you don't become happy because of your appearance. Instead, you might gain confidence from it.”
“In reality, a cell is a biological mini-me compared to the human body. A cell has every biological system that you have.”
“In reality, a person questioning the existence of the Satanic conspiracy is merely pointing out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. In that case, one can understand why the emperor's tailors get upset and suggest the person doing the pointing is a tool of the devil. Then the question comes down to one of whether the crowd will believe the evidence they have before them, or if they will buy into the tailors' fantasies.”
“In reality, all those guys are gone, so you can't say it's revenge. It's a completely new team.”
“In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.”
“In reality, anybody who's a woman knows that you've got your good days and bad days, just like anybody else. I've been lucky with a lot of shows that I've worked on, where they are comfortable with the idea that women are not just one thing, and we can be contradiction.”
“In reality, as any physicist will tell you, the physical world is made up of moving energy. All matter is energy.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“In reality, at the end of World War II, America imposed democracy at the point of a bayonet on Japan and Germany, and it has proved a resounding success in both countries. The problem with liberals is that they never give bayonets a chance.”
Source: Letters to a Young Conservative
“In reality, childhood is deep and rich. It's vital, mysterious, and profound. I remember my OWN childhood vividly; I knew terrible things, but I knew I mustn't let the adults *know* I knew... it would scare them.”
“In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing thats going on every single day.”
“In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.”
Source: God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God
“In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.”