Hermann Hesse
Novelist, Poet
"There is no reality except the one contained within us."
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Byron Katie
Author, Speaker
"Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing."
Ramakrishna
Spiritual Leader
"Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal."
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Philosopher, Speaker
"One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that can be transformed, not that which you wish to be."
Anne Lamott
Author, Essayist
"Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting."
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"All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense."
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"I think there's more real in the unreal than there is in the real."
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"Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal."
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"Really unreal world, will you perhaps do the breathing for me while I am away?"
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"Work on what is real rather than worry about what is unreal."
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"If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself."
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"The real in me longs for peace. The unreal in me longs for power."
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