Reality

"I could never really manage to tell reality and my dream world apart, for the two of them co-existed together as they slid over top of each other."

"It is simply expression, as Henry says, that gives reality to things."

"Reality is based on, and controlled by, our thoughts."

"You must now go home, where everything -- you can be quite sure -- will be falser than here... You must go now. You'll leave by the right, through the alley..."

"But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out."

"Not all the magic of earth is benevolent."

"If you fell outward to the limit of the universe, would you find a board fence and signs reading DEAD END? No. You might find something hard and rounded, as the chick must see the egg from the inside. And if you should peck through that shell (or find a door), what great and torrential light might shine through your opening at the end of space? Might you look through and discover our entire universe is but part of one atom on a blade of grass? Might you be forced to think that by burning a twig you incinerate an eternity of eternities? That existence rises not to one infinite but to an infinity of them?"

"Currently where you are is on a huge globe with a relatively thin crust of stone, containing fire in its bowels, rotating on its own slightly tilted axis at 1,000 miles per hour in an easterly direction while simultaneously traveling in orbit around an enormous ball of burning hydrogen, 93,000,000 miles away at 66,000 miles per hour. That’s 66,000 miles per hour, or nineteen miles per second, which is much faster that you’ve maybe ever imagined, and means that you will be traveling nearly 60,000,000 miles this coming year. Beauty is, you don’t have to imagine it, you can feel it instead. And if you want to know what it’s like, simply stop. Be still, and in that stillness, whatever you are feeling in your belly: that’s it. this is what it feels like to go 66,000 miles per hour while spinning at one thousand."

"There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that science fiction is escape into reality... It's a fiction which does concern itself with real issues: the origin of man; our future. In fact I can't think of any form of literature which is more concerned with real issues, reality."

"It's a true image, born of a false spectacle."

"...but that was the thing about reality. It didn't need to make sense."

"If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream."

"Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality."

"In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed. In Adrian's terms, I gave up on life, gave up on examining it, took it as it came. And so, for the first time, I began to feel a more general remorse - a feeling somewhere between self-pity and self-hatred - about my whole life. All of it. I had lost the friends of my youth. I had lost the love of my wife. I had abandoned the ambitions I had entertained. I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was."

"If you knew your potential to feel good, you would ask no one to be different so that you can feel good. You would free yourself of all of that cumbersome impossibility of needing to control the world, or control your mate, or control your child. You are the only one who creates your reality. For no one else can think for you, no one else can do it. It is only you, every bit of it you."

"Why harrow oneself by looking on the worst side?... Because it is sometimes necessary."

"Upset The Established Order Of Your Life And Everything Becomes Chaos... To A Degree That You Wont Be Able To Differentiate Between Mere Illusions And Solid Reality"

"There is nothing more real than what cannot be seen and there is nothing more certain than what cannot be heard."

"On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid,And I begin to meditate about problems I make up."

"This is the real world, and only a believer walking in fellowship with His Creator and Redeemer can understand it. Everyone else is the world is experiencing a 'break with reality'."