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"Your very existence is evidence of your innate creativity. In every moment you are co-creating your reality through your thoughts, your intentions, your words and your actions."
"A good poem is a contribution to reality."
"There has never been a master plan. Anyone who wanted to do it, we fired because it takes on a life of its own and doesn't cover new reality. We want people taking into account new information."
"A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself."
"There is no such thing as a 'real' representation of 'reality.' Except, perhaps, in algebraic formulae."
"You don't get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?"
"One cannot help but be in awe when [one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality."
"I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history."
"Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one illusory part which our self-centered consciousness permits us to see. We must not live thoughtlessly, taking our illusion for the complete reality, but at the same time we must not live too thoughtfully in the sense of trying to escape from the dream state. We must be continuously on watch for ways in which we may enlarge our consciousness."
"Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love."
"It's very hard to keep your spirits up. You've got to keep selling yourself a bill of goods, and some people are better at lying to themselves than others. If you face reality too much, it kills you.... you've got to find an answer to the question: Why go on?"
"I think the idea of having a game based on reality is compelling right off the bat because everyone has some experience with the subject of the game."
"By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it."
"There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality. We think that there is something hiding reality and that this must be destroyed before reality is gained. How ridiculous! A day will dawn when you will laugh ... at all your past efforts. That which will be the day you laugh is also here and now."
"All beings exist in an invisible state and then come to a state of visibility. Change occurs only on the surface, for the self-existent glory remains unchanged; changing form does not affect the self-existent Reality. Atman, Soul or the Self, dwells in all that is perishable, yet it remains imperishable."
"It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality."
"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
"Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality."
"Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging."
"If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there."
