Best self & reality Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Now, for Romney to believe that somebody's grandmother is going to be so cut off she is going to self deport... He certainly shows no concern for the humanity of people who are already here... I think you have to live in worlds of Swiss bank accounts and Cayman Island accounts and automatic $20 million a year income with no work to have some fantasy this far from reality.”

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Author:Newt Gingrich

“For an advanced preceiver, the play of life is to assemble and reassemble the self in alternate realities of which this is one.”

World Self Play Reality Life Is Buddhism Other Worlds Alternate Realities

Author:Frederick Lenz

“An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.”

Ifs Life Giving Looks Self Use Reality Beautiful Success Behinds Fronts Example Huge Misery Vanity Hiding Behind You Self Absorbed Peacock

Author:Pope Francis

“I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.”

World Trying Has Beens Self Reality Turns Fiction Class Team Car Science Fiction Spending Driving Engineers Google World Class Professional Life Driving Cars

Author:Sebastian Thrun

“We tend to think that refusing to exalt Christ is staying true to our self-will and personal freedom when really we are condemning ourselves. Sure, we can pretend to stay true to ourselves, but if you want to talk about reality, all of that is completely trivial if this life is an island and He's the only pilot with a plane and a flight plan.”

Ifs Thinking Want Self Reality Life Is Christ Plans Flight This Life Planes Islands Staying Pilots Stay True Condemning Personal Freedom Self Will

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“At its most basic, the spiritual is the experience of the connectedness that underlies reality. The depth of that experience depends on the capacity of the individual to set aside considerations of self, thereby gaining access to connection.”

Self Reality Spiritual Spirituality Individual Depends Capacity Connections Depth Access Consideration Connectedness

Author:Arthur J. Deikman

“Enlightenment just means that you don't have a structural self. It means you've flipped through the gradated realities. Nothing binds, nothing clings to you. You're unaffected by everything.”

Mean Self Reality Enlightenment Flipped

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A teacher is someone who has taken their mind much further than you have. They've gone into the void further. They've seen the luminous realities. No one has seen them all...but they've seen more than you have and they understand the trap of self-reflection.”

Mind Self Reality Gone Taken Teacher Reflection Enlightened Void Traps Self Reflection Luminous

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The demands of our reality function require that we adapt to reality, that we constitute ourselves as a reality and that we manufacture works which are realities. But doesn't reverie, by its very essence, liberate us from the reality function? From the moment it is considered in all its simplicity, it is perfectly evident that reverie bears witness to a normal useful irreality function which keeps the human psyche on the fringe of all the brutality of a hostile and foreign non-self.”

Humans Self Moments Reality Bears Demand Normal Essence Function Simplicity Witness Evident Hostile Fringe Brutality Reverie Human Psyche

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“In the World of Reality there is no self, There is no other-than-self.”

World Self Reality

Author:Sengcan

“In that undifferentiated reality of the Self there is eternal bliss. All the phantoms of existence fade away.”

Self Reality Existence Eternal Yoga Bliss Fades Phantoms Fade Away

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Thank God I never hooked on anything. I never had a monkey on my back. I just wanted to self-medicate, to numb myself through liquor. It's how I dealt with life, reality, stress, change, sadness, memories. The list goes on. I was really trying to feel nothing.”

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Author:Johnny Depp

“First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think merely in slogans. If we are to work for the future of the city, let us deal with the realities as they actually are, not as they might have been, and not as we wish they were.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Doe Has Beens Self Facts Reality Might Truth Faces Dies Wish Deals Cities Refuse Deception Might Have Been Slogans Self Deception

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Iconography becomes even more revealing when processes or concepts, rather than objects, must be depicted for the constraint of a definite "thing" cedes directly to the imagination. How can we draw "evolution" or "social organization," not to mention the more mundane "digestion" or "self-interest," without portraying more of a mental structure than a physical reality? If we wish to trace the history of ideas, iconography becomes a candid camera trained upon the scholar's mind.”

Source: Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history

“The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American officials and media commentators in recent days seems, well, unworthy of a mature democracy.”

Wells Self Reality Seems Party Democracy Media Congress Officials Mature Soviet Rhetoric Unworthy Commentators Concealing Unanimity Sanctimonious

Book:At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

“Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total.”

Art Self Reality Social Situation Communication Art Is Connections Sufficient Distortion Corrections Self Sufficient Modification Unendurable

Author:Jean Tinguely

“The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy.”

Should Self Reality Certain Passion Interest Dangerous Injustice Distrust Self Interest Trustworthy

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“If there is a lesson in our story it is that the manipulation, according to strictly self-consistent rules, of a set of symbols representing one single aspect of the phenomena may produce correct, verifiable predictions, and yet completely ignore all other aspects whose ensemble constitutes reality.”

Ifs May Self Stories Reality Produce Lessons Aspect Symbols Consistent Manipulation Predictions Representing Ensemble

Author:Arthur Koestler

“It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self--ceases. I don't know how to say it. But I believe that the reality--the truth that I recognize in suffering as I don't in comfort and happiness--that the reality of pain is not pain. If you can get through it. If you can endure it all the way.”

Ifs Knows Way Believe Self Reality Pain Suffering I Believe Know How Comfort Endure Cease Comfort And Happiness

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“What has here happened is that the instinct of cruelty, which has turned inwards, has become self-torture, and all man's animal instincts have been reinterpreted as guilt towards God. Every Nay man utters to his nature, to his real being, he flings out as a Yea, an affirmation of reality applied to God's sanctity”

Men Has Beens Real Self Reality Animal Happened Guilt Instinct Cruelty Torture Affirmation Sanctity Fling Animal Instinct

Book:Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)

Source: Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)

“Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence -- words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security -- there is the reality of enormous wealth in the hands of a few, while billions of people in the world are hungry, sick, homeless.”

Source: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

“Self-help books for those who believe 'You can have it all' often advise, 'Follow your bliss and money will follow.' With the collapse of the stock markets the reality of trade-offs is more like, 'When you follow your bliss, it's money you'll miss.'”

Believe Book Self Helping Reality Missing Self Help Trade Bliss Collapse Advise Believe You Can Follow Your Bliss Trade Offs Self Help Books Help Book

Author:Warren Farrell

“There is no such thing as a secret among our leaders; communication is very open and honest, and if it's not, then it can become seemingly brutal. You've heard my arguments for love, friends, and authenticity, but there are the deceivers, the manipulators, the control freaks, and the self-appointed teachers in the Body who would love to use our system for their own selfish purposes. We all know the realities of the old sin nature.”

Ifs Knows Self Use Body Reality Purpose Sin Secret Leader Teacher Heard Honest Communication Argument Selfish Authenticity Freak Brutal Control Freak Deceiver Manipulator

Author:Ted Haggard

“If, while observing the boundless universe, the writer is able to scrutinise his own self as well as others, the resulting incisiveness of his observations will far surpass objective descriptions of reality.”

Ifs Writing Wells Self Reality Able Universe Objectives Observation Description Observing Boundless

Author:Gao Xingjian

“Anarchism is in reality the ideal of political and social science, and also the ideal of religion. It is the ideal to which Jesus Christ looked forward. Christ founded no church, established no state, gave practically no laws, organized no government and set up no external authority, but he did seek to write on the hearts of men God's law and make them self-legislating.”

Men Writing Heart Self States Reality Government Law Political Jesus Social Christ Church Authority Jesus Christ Ideals Organized Anarchism Social Science

Author:R. Heber Newton

“The moment you stop seeking pleasure in worldly things and become true master of yourself, you will experience the essential reality of the Self. Then you will no longer have to seek God. God himself will come to you. This is the Divine Law.”

Self Moments Reality Law Pleasure Divine Masters Essentials Seeking Worldly Divine Law Worldly Things

Author:Asaram

“There is no self-interest completely unrelated to others' interests. Due to the fundamental interconnectedness which lies at the heart of reality, your interest is also my interest. From this it becomes clear that "my" interest and "your" interest are intimately connected. In a deep sense, they converge.”

Heart Self Reality Lying Interest Clear Fundamentals Unity Connected Dues Self Interest Interconnectedness

Author:Dalai Lama

“Faith in the continuance and enhancement of the intrinsic values--faith in truth, in beauty, in friendship, in love and harmony of life--in short, faith in reason and the worth of spiritual life--such faith is only another name for faith in the persistence of spiritual individuality. For, I repeat, these values are real only as functions of personal experience and deed. To have faith in the permanence of intrinsic values is to assume the enduring reality of selves who know truth, feel beauty, who love and win spiritual harmony.”

“I began to go into samadhi, not just occasionally, but every day many times a day until I reached a point where I could no longer distinguish between ordinary and non-ordinary reality. For me it is all the same. I am in a state of continuous absorption in the Self.”

Self States Reality Ordinary Rama Samadhi Absorption

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You are a child of the universe, "fearfully and wonderfully made." In the history of creation, there has never been anyone like you. Accept this reality about yourself- that you are a special, unique human being who has a place on this earth that no one else can fill. Acknowledge yourself as a glorious expression of your loving Creator. This healthy self-love will form the foundation of a joyful and satisfying life. Then, as you love and accept yourself, your inner light will shine outward to bless and heal your fellow human beings.”

“If you do not master the art of self discipline- you will succumb to the emotions and reality of regret.”

Ifs Art Self Reality Emotion Masters Regret Discipline Self Discipline

Author:John Assaraf

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