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"This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart."
"I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours."
"We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality."
"Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us."
"You must come to terms with the reality that nothing outside ourselves, be it people or things is actually responsible for our happiness."
"Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality"
"Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor."
"The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality."
"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality."
"One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams."
"Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations."
"If you have peace of mind, when you meet with problems and difficulties they won’t disturb your inner peace. You’ll be able to employ your human intelligence more effectively. But, if your mental state is disturbed, full of emotion, it is very difficult to cope with problems, because the mind that is full of emotion is biased, unable to see reality. So whatever you do will be unrealistic and naturally fail."
"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 illusion."
"The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today"
"Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them."
"One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised."
"Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us."
"Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration."
"Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore"
"It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity."
