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Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist
Reality

"If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you."

Reality Teacher Journey
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Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher
Reality

"The fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much less sons, land, or money."

Reality Land Son
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Kenneth Burke Philosopher
Reality

"Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality."

Men Reality Reflection
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Witness Lee Christian Minister
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"Only when we live, walk, behave, and have our being altogether in our spirit, not in our natural man, are we in the kingdom of God and, in reality, are the kingdom of God."

Men Reality Kingdoms
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Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author
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"People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one's perception of reality."

Reality Cutting Break Through
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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer
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"Reality may not be the best of all possible worlds, but it's still the only place where you can get a decent steak."

World Reality May
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Stephen Hawking Theoretical Physicist
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"A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?"

Reality Views Cities
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Reality

"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality."

Two Eye Reality
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Marie-Louise von Franz Psychologist, Author
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"If we can stay with the tension of opposites long enough —sustain it, be true to it—we can sometimes become vessels within which the divine opposites come together and give birth to a new reality."

Long Reality Opposites
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Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
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"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."

Self Reality Organization
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