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"The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change."
"Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality."
"We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull."
"Reality is not always probable, or likely."
"Do not take life's experiences too seriously. For in reality they are nothing but dream experiences. Play your part in life, but never forget that it is only a role."
"Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it"
"Every country has its own reality and its own leaders, and the leaders act in accordance with their reality."
"As soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency."
"If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better."
"Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem."
"Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality."
"My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality."
"You owe reality nothing and the truth about your feelings everything."
"My family was my guide to my reality."
"Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?"
"Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms"
"Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality."
"Not until you surrender does the spiritual dimension become a living reality in your life. When you do, the energy you emanate and that then runs your life is of a much higher vibrational frequency than the mind energy that still runs the world."
"I think people today are very cynical. They need to bring other people down. Reality television and tabloid magazinesnever before did we need to see movie stars taking out their garbage. But all of a sudden, it's front-page newstrying to figure out who's dating whom, all that stuff. Who cares?"
"The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream."
