#reality

If you wish your children, and your wife, and your friends to live for ever, you are stupid; for you wish to be in control of things which you cannot.

Truth conquers by itself; opinion by foreign aids.

The unnamable is the eternally real. Naming is the origin of all particular things.

Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendacity in the face of what is necessary—but love it.

Remain faithful to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of other-worldly hopes!

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusions.

The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all, unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.

Since it is in the present and only in the present that you live, there is no other reality than present reality.

Insecurity is the very condition of life. To resist it is to resist life itself.

To know reality you must look at it directly, not through the screen of symbols, words, and numbers.

Words are like signposts: they point to the city, but they are not the city.

Money is a measure of wealth, but not wealth itself. You cannot eat dollar bills or drink gold.

Synchronicity is an ever-present reality for those who have eyes to see.

To perceive is to suffer; for to be conscious is to be touched by the friction of existence.

Man is responsible for recognizing the demands that reality makes on him at every single moment.

A tendency to act only becomes ingrained when the act is repeated in physical reality.

Our minds are not passive mirrors; they carve out reality according to our human purposes.

The deepest thing in our nature is this benevolent whisper: that reality is more than what appears to the senses.

The stream of thought is the primary reality of our inner life; all theories are secondary abstractions.

Give up the futile fight against the inevitable; yield to reality and find your power within it.

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.

It is easier to appear worthy of the positions one does not hold than of those one does.

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

The shadow of the flower upon the ground is not the flower.

The present moment is the only doorway to reality.

There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.

There is no greater mystery than this: we are Reality itself, yet we seek Reality elsewhere.

The present moment contains all reality.