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“Zen has no theory. It is a non-theoretical approach into reality. It has no doctrine and no dogma - hence it has no church, no priest, no pope.”

Reality Church Theory Approach Doctrine Priests Dogma Pope Theoretical

Author:Rajneesh

“Become aware of your aloneness - which is a reality. And it is so beautiful to experience it, to feel it, because it is your freedom from the crowd, from the other. It is your freedom from the fear of being lonely.”

Feels Reality Beautiful Loneliness Lonely Crowds Being Lonely Your Freedom

Author:Rajneesh

“People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one's perception of reality.”

People Reality Break Cutting Perception Oneness Barriers Break Through Interdependence Perception Reality

Book:Collected Wheel Publications Volume XVI: Numbers 231–247

Source: Collected Wheel Publications Volume XVI: Numbers 231–247

“Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.”

Reality Ignorance Higher Terrible Paid Realism Ignored

Book:Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience

Source: Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience

“Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.”

Men Wells Reality Saws

Book:The Mists of Avalon

Source: The Mists of Avalon

“I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.”

Real Reality Money Tests Making Money Worth Living Life Worth Living

Author:Robert Fulghum

“The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."”

Feelings Reality Ought Conflict Paradox Quantum

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“Fancy tortures more people than does reality”

People Doe Reality Torture Fancy

Author:Ouida

“There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality.”

Reality Virtue Appearance

Author:Margaret of Valois

“We demand to be coaxed and comforted, to be encouraged and gratified, so we choose a teacher who will give us what we crave for. We do not search out reality, but go after gratification and sensation.”

Giving Reality Desire Teacher Demand Sensations Crave Gratification Be Encouraged

Book:Commentaries on Living 2

Source: Commentaries on Living 2

“Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.”

Dream Reality Fantasy Wake Up Proportion Waking Dreamer

Book:At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe

Source: At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe

“It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.”

Humans Reality Force Human Beings Clear Honesty Determination Purity Falsehood Astonishing

Book:Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

Source: Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

“It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality.”

Ideas Reality Beautiful Prove Delightful Consonants

Author:Albert Einstein

“All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image and an image in terms of reality.”

Reality Term Discovery Artistic

Author:Ernst Gombrich

“The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality.”

World Has Beens Hard Philosophy Reality Spirit Dies Tradition Philosophical Imperfect Representation Superficial Plato

Book:The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)

Source: The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)

“Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and frustration.”

Ideas Facts Reality Principles Agree Endless Abstract Frustration Concrete Penalties Inconsistency

Book:Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking

Source: Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking

“We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.”

Ifs Needs Real Ends Reality Our Lives Growing Blood Cold Connections Strangest Secret

Book:The Principles of Psychology

Source: The Principles of Psychology

“I never think I feel cynical in general. Cynical is reality with an alternate spelling. I feel there's a gigantic amount of injustice and overt crime every day in the world, from emotional crimes to international crimes, and it often carries rewards.”

Thinking World Feels Reality Crime Emotional Amount Rewards Injustice International Carrie Cynical Cynicism Spelling Cynic

Author:Woody Allen

“The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.”

Knows Giving Doe Reality Artist Hours Sacrifice Conversation Giving Up

Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)

“I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen.”

Reality Happens Crisis

Author:Mark Twain

“The activity at this very moment must be the only thing that matters, to which one is fully given. If one is concentrated, it matters little what one is doing. The important, as well as the unimportant things, assume a new dimension of reality, because they have one's full attention.”

Ifs Wells Littles Important Matter Moments Reality Given Attention Activity Assuming Dimensions Concentration Unimportant Things That Matter Only Thing That Matters Unimportant Things

Book:THE ART OF LOVING

Source: THE ART OF LOVING

“The new media are not ways of relating to us the 'real' world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will.”

World Way Real Reality Media Remains Real World Old World New Media

Book:Counter blast [by] Marshall McLuhan

Source: Counter blast [by] Marshall McLuhan

“The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction. * * * A name "fast anchored in the deep abyss of time" is like a star twinkling in the firmament, cold, silent, distant, but eternal and sublime; and our transmitting one to posterity is as if we should contemplate our translation to the skies.”

Ifs Should Mind Feelings Reality Names Stars Sky Cold Fame Eternal Silent Delicate Contemplating Solitary Sublime Abyss Abstraction Translations Posterity Firmament Twinkling

Author:William Hazlitt

“To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.”

Reality Memories Attention Minutes Paint Fancy

Book:The works of the English poets, from Chaucer to Cowper

Source: The works of the English poets, from Chaucer to Cowper

“When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion.”

World Mind Ideas Real Reality Form Society Pure Perfection Flight Perceive Delusion Copies Artificial Plato Unbearable Plato S

Author:Arthur Koestler

“Reality has a long history of not altering itself to make us happy or comfortable.”

Long Reality Comfortable Realism

Author:Philip Gulley

“Since form is emptiness and emptiness is form, then instead of a hand grasping at nothing, it is better to grasp at someone's nose because this is closer to reality.”

Hands Reality Form Noses Emptiness Grasping

Author:Dalai Lama

“An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality.”

Looks Reality Artist Lost Models Careful Departure

Author:Pablo Picasso

“You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on.”

Reality Realism Erase

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.”

Reality Found Darkness Lightness

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.”

Reality Fiction Beats Sight Usual

Author:Joseph Conrad

“It is perhaps not a surprise that photography developed as a technological medium in the industrial age, when reality started to disappear. It is even perhaps the disappearance of reality that triggered this technical form. Reality found a way to mutate into an image.”

Way Reality Age Form Found Photography Surprise Disappear Mediums Technological Disappearance

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“So-called "realist" photography does not capture the "what is." Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example.”

Should Doe Reality Suffering Example Photography Capture Realism Realist

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.”

Real Reality Used Assuming Nostalgia Used To Be

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“We must accept our reality as vastly as we possibly can; everything, even the unprecedented, must be possible within it.”

Reality Accepting Unprecedented

Book:Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

“A thing either is what it appears to be; or it is not, but yet appears to be; or it is, but does not appear to be; or it is not, and does not appear to be.”

Doe Reality Realism

Author:Epictetus

“NRTC is pleased with our preliminary agreement and we look forward to working with SES AMERICOM, as it develops the exciting, new IP-PRIME platform, .. NRTC is focused on finding telecommunications solutions that are ideal for rural communities and working with our membership to make those solutions a reality across the country.”

Looks Country Reality Community Findings Solutions Ideals Exciting Focused Agreement Prime Platforms Membership Telecommunications Rural Communities

Author:Bob Phillips

“Inner reality is certainly more important than the outer reality.”

Important Reality

Author:Timothy Leary

“The mask is torn off, while the reality remains”

Reality Remains Mask Torn

Author:Lucretius

“Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality.”

Mean Reality Unconscious

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.”

People Reality Remember Realism

Author:Charles Kuralt

“Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while not at the mercy of appearances, is not yet in conflict with them.”

Feels Reality Seems Painting Conflict Criticism Mercy Appearance Procedures Handmaids

Author:Andre Malraux

“It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper.”

Way Looks Reality Loses Newspapers Uplifting

Author:Karl Kraus

“And I think we'll be able to prove scientifically that other talents such as intuitive, psychic, clairvoyant and audiovoyant are very real.”

Thinking Real Reality Able Talent Prove Psychics Intuitive Clairvoyant

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“My responsibility is simply being who I am and not buying into any projection as real. No projection is finally real, but projection does play a very important role.”

Doe Important Real Play Reality Responsibility Roles Who I Am Buying Projection

Author:Gangaji

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

Knows Reality Eternal

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy.”

Kind Philosophy Reality Faces Sound Healthy True Happiness

Book:The Importance of Living

Source: The Importance of Living

“Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be caught, colour and all, would not be a picture at all, no more than a photograph.”

Ifs Reality Essentials Reflection Mirrors Aim Photograph Caught Drawing Colour Accurate Realism

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“To express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance. Certainly there is nothing in that of stereoscopic realism, but is it not something that actually exists?”

Soul Reality Stars Sunset Realism Radiance Eagerness

Book:Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889

Source: Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889

“My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies if you like - but truer than the literal truth.”

Ifs May Reality Truth Lying Longing Literal Deviation

Book:Van Gogh and his art

Source: Van Gogh and his art

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