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“I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start to lose my sense of reality, and it ends up feeling like an empty experience; there's funny stuff in it but I've lost the emotional connection to the characters because it's just so bananas.”

Ends Whole Character Feelings Reality Lost Stuff Loses Comedy Emotional Empty Connections Viewers Strain Bananas Emotional Connection Funny Stuff

Author:Mike White

“Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha.... Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.”

Thinking Knows Mind Looks Reality Lying Awareness Walking Sitting Standing Empty Oneself Liberation Delusion Lying Down

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“Mysterious spaces cause us to turn inward. Amid a rich upwelling of association, we encounter many aspects of ourselves. As we grow still, we come in contact with a unified, empty, yet full ground of our being. As our consciousness grows more spacious, we find connections between us and the wider world, a shared greater reality.”

World Stills Reality Turns Grows Causes Space Consciousness Rich Greater Aspect Empty Connections Contact Mysterious Encounters Association Inward Unified

Author:John Paul Caponigro

“Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their way, who know the endless bitterness, the grave moral deterioration which follow an empty exchequer, may well be pardoned for an over-wish to see their sons secured from it; hunger, at least, is a reality.”

Source: The nemesis of faith: or, The history of Markham Sutherland

“I have way too many commitments. I get pulled in too many directions and I never seem to be able to satisfy anybody. People get turned on by knowing a celebrity, even my friends and family. They feel that there's something exciting about me, but in reality there's no substance to it. People in airports just hold on to me expecting something and it seems that I always come up empty. It's frustrating because I'm trying to please everybody, and ya just can't do that ... at least I can't.”

People Way Feels Trying I Can Reality Seems Able Knowing Please My Friends Commitment Empty Exciting Come Up Substance Expecting Family And Friends Frustrating Airports Expecting Something

Author:Tim Allen

“Immediate knowledge tells us only that God is, not what he is. But if God is not an empty Being beyond the stars, he must be present in the communion of human spirits, and, in his relation to these, he is the One Spirit who pervades reality and thought. Hence there can be no final separation between our immediate consciousness of him and our mediated knowledge of reality.”

Ifs Humans Reality Spirit Stars Consciousness Empty Relation Finals Separation Communion Human Spirit Beyond The Stars

Book:Typical Modern Conceptions of God: Or, The Absolute of German Romantic Idealism and of English Evolutionary Agnosticism, with a Constructive Essay

Source: Typical Modern Conceptions of God: Or, The Absolute of German Romantic Idealism and of English Evolutionary Agnosticism, with a Constructive Essay

“If dragons were common, and you could look at one in the zoo - but zebras were a rare legendary creature that had finally been decided to be mythical - then there's a certain sort of person who would ignore dragons, who would never bother to look at dragons, and chase after rumors of zebras. The grass is always greener on the other side of reality. Which is rather setting ourselves up for eternal disappointment, eh? If we cannot take joy in the merely real, our lives shall be empty indeed.”

“I wondered whether the scientific modern brain could not get to the stage of realising that Space is not an empty homogeneous medium, but full of intricate differences, intelligible and real, though not with our common reality.”

Real Reality Differences Space Common Brain Modern Stage Empty Mediums Realising Intricate Homogeneous

Book:NO-MAN’S-LAND & Other Supernatural Stories (Mystery & Horror Series): The Watcher by the Threshold, Space, The Keeper of Cademuir, A Journey of Little Profit, The Outgoing of the Tide, The Grove of Ashtaroth, Basilissa & Fullcircle

Source: NO-MAN’S-LAND & Other Supernatural Stories (Mystery & Horror Series): The Watcher by the Threshold, Space, The Keeper of Cademuir, A Journey of Little Profit, The Outgoing of the Tide, The Grove of Ashtaroth, Basilissa & Fullcircle

“Since philosophy is the exploration of the rational, it is for that very reason the apprehension of the present and the actual, not the erection of a beyond, supposed to exist, God knows where, or rather which exists, and we can perfectly well say where, namely in the error of a one-sided, empty, ratiocination.”

Knows Wells Reason Philosophy Reality Empty Philosophical Errors Rational Exploration Realism God Knows Apprehension One Sided

Book:Philosophy of right

Source: Philosophy of right

“Freedom has only the meaning with which men endow it. It is not enough to pay lip service to the concept of religious liberty. We must pay heart service to it as well, else it remains an empty phrase instead of a living reality.”

Men Wells Heart Enough Reality Religious Pay Liberty Concepts Empty Remains Lips Phrases Religious Liberty Lip Service Living Reality

Author:Kenneth Keating

“The termination is not based on innocence or guilt, but on biology. The sociopath personality is fraudulent. They are impostors within the human species. Killing a sociopath is equivalent to killing God. Neither exists in reality. They are empty shells of imagination, said Chiron”

Humans Said Reality Imagination Personality Empty Guilt Species Killing Innocence Biology Shells Sociopath Human Species Termination Empty Shell

Author:C. J. Anderson

“Surely, it is only when the mind is creatively empty that it is capable of finding out whether there is an ultimate reality or not. But, the mind is never creatively empty; it is always acquiring, always gathering, living on the past or in the future, or trying to be focused in the immediate present: it is never in that state of creativeness in which a new thing can take place. As the mind is a result of time, it cannot possibly understand that which is timeless, eternal.”

Trying Mind States Reality Past Results Findings Eternal Capable Empty Ultimate Focused New Things Timeless Gathering Living On Creativeness Ultimate Reality

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“We've fallen for the devil's lie. His most basic strategy, the same one he employed with Adam and Eve, is to make us believe that sin brings fulfillment. However, in reality, sin robs us of fulfillment. Sin doesn't make life interesting; it makes life empty. Sin doesn't create adventure; it blunts it. Sin doesn't expand life; it shrinks it. Sin's emptiness inevitably leads to boredom. When there's fulfillment, when there's beauty, when we see God as he truly is-an endless reservoir of fascination-boredom becomes impossible.”

Believe Reality Lying Sin Interesting Impossible Adventure Devil Empty Strategy Endless Fulfillment Fallen Boredom Emptiness Adam Employed Shrinks Fascination Adam And Eve Reservoirs

Book:Heaven

Source: Heaven

“The economy is changing everything. And men need to deal with that. Our response to it has been rage, stupidity and conscious avoidance of dealing with what the reality of being a man might be outside of empty concepts from ancient history.”

Men Needs Has Beens Reality Might Deals Economy Conscious Concepts Empty Response Ancient Stupidity Rage Avoidance Ancient History Changing Everything

Author:Stephen Marche

“Trump walked into a media setting for which he was far better suited than the other contenders because he actually knows how to do reality TV and made them all look like pretenders. And I would argue that our news media has only gotten worse since Trump got in office. Trump is media crack. The ratings have never been higher. The reason CNN would run an hour of an empty podium waiting for him to show up during the campaign is because they were terrified if they turned away from Trump their rating would go down.”

Reason Reality Running Waiting Hours Office Empty Arguing Pretender

Author:Naomi Klein

“At the most simplistic level physicists tell us that what we see as reality is not actually accurate. A rock looks solid to us but it's full of empty space and atoms moving and we see it as solid because we need to because it helps us survive, right? Survival being our goal. You can extrapolate that to many other things.”

Helping Reality Moving Goal Survival Empty Physicist

Author:Nicole Krauss

“And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love.”

Reality Universe Eternal Empty Everyday Floating One Hundred Years Of Solitude

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.”

Ifs Life Reality Felt Perfect Empty Fragile Bubbles Soap Interruptions Soap Bubbles

Book:Pretties

Source: Pretties

“I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.”

Want Reality Night Air Tears Summer Empty Clouds Legs Block Burning Hills Throat Concrete Floating Lungs Floats Summer Nights Floating Away

Book:The Kite Runner: Rejacketed

Source: The Kite Runner: Rejacketed

“Too much FANTASY loses REALITY, too much HOPE may seem somehow EMPTY.”

May Reality Seems Loses Fantasy Too Much Empty

Author:Akira Toriyama

“He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.”

Facts Reality Empty Absolutes Certainty Concrete Smallest Fragility Absolute Certainty Plenitude

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“If you ant to feel deeply, you have to think deeply. Too often we separate the two. We assume that if we want to feel deeply, then we need to sit around and, well, feel. But emotion built on emotion is empty. True emotion- emotion that is reliable and does not lead us astray- is always a response to reality, to truth.”

Ifs Thinking Want Needs Feels Wells Doe Two Reality Emotion Built Empty Assuming Response Ants True Emotions

Author:Joshua Harris

“To wait. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions all together occupy a bare one percent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine percent is just living in waiting. I wait in momentary expectation, feeling as though my breasts are being crushed, for the sound in the corridor of the footsteps of happiness. Empty. Oh, life is too painful, the reality that confirms the universal belief that it is best not to be born.”

“An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word is deprived of its dimension of action, reflection automatically suffers as well; and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism, into an alienated and alienating “blah.” It becomes an empty word, one which cannot denounce the world, for denunciation is impossible without a commitment to transform, and there is no transformation without action.”

“The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What does this say about time? Matter, that thing the most solid and the well-known, which you are holding in your hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space. Empty space and points of light. What does this say about the reality of the world?”

Source: Sexing the Cherry

“I find that the only way to get through life is to picture myself in an entirely disconnected reality. I often imagine how people would react to my death. Mr Dunthorne's quavering voice as he makes the announcement. The shocked faces of my classmates. A playground bedecked with flowers. The empty stillness of a school corridor. Local news analysis. . . . The steady stoicism of my parents. . . . Candlelit vigils. . . . And finally, my glorious resurrection.”

“Religion has only one answer and that answer is meditation. And meditation means how to empty yourself.”

Mean Reality Religion Answers Meditation Empty

Author:Rajneesh

“I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.”

Reality Wanted Space Loneliness Lonely Empty Cinema Entertaining Being Alone Empty Space

Author:Pedro Almodovar

“An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is without significance – almost dull, in fact – in reality, is crammed with thousands of undertone tensions and full of expectancy. Slightly apprehensive lest it should be outraged.”

Should Facts Reality Empty Tension Dull Significance Canvas Outraged Expectancy Empty Canvas

Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“The house seemed so empty without him. And I thought about the life we'd been building together for all that time. I realized I was on the brink of losing it all. It just scared me into reality.”

Reality Together House Building Losing Empty Scared I Realized

Author:Hunter Tylo

“The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.”

Doe Country Reality Beautiful Planets Travel Empty Fingers Smell Print Bottles Thank God Desirable Embarrassing Abstraction Ants Tourists Tourism Coca Cola

Book:A World of Strangers

Source: A World of Strangers

“We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own stories of our peoples. We have got to have the ugly facts in order to protect us from the official view of reality. Otherwise, we are squeezed empty and filled with what other people want us to think and feel and experience.”

People Thinking Want Feels Humans Wells Facts Stories Reality Faces Order Nations Sides Views Protect Empty Filled Including Ugly Officials Want U Affirmative

Author:Bill Moyers

“Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation centered in Eastern religions. In reality, the two ideas stand worlds apart. Eastern meditation is an attempt to empty the mind; Christian meditation is an attempt to fill the mind. The two ideas are quite different.”

World Mind Two Ideas Different Reality Christian Taken Meditation Concepts Empty Assuming Contemplation Eastern Worlds Apart

Book:Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline

Source: Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline

“Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty space of reality. Melancholia and self-murder are not unknown in the Fens. Heavy drinking, madness and sudden acts of violence are not uncommon. How do you surmount reality, children? How do you acquire, in a flat country, the tonic of elevated feelings?”

Source: Waterland