"Pessimists try to convince you the world sucks, optimists already know it does and smile anyway."
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"Pessimists try to convince you the world sucks, optimists already know it does and smile anyway."
"I have loved this world in ways it could never love me back."
"... suppose if something very terrible had happened, so terrible as to be almost unbearable, one might get like that. One might run away from reality into a half world of one's own and then, of course, after a time, one wouldn't be able to get back..."
"The way you see the world is how you live it."
"The world has been blind in the presence of artificial lights. They blame on the darkness in broad daylight."
"The more you get set into your own world, the smaller your world becomes."
"It is Obscene to keep Printing Newspapers in the Digital Era"
"When reality was just tilted on an axis, a world continued to spin. This is me."
"Dialogue helps us to acknowledge that we see the world not as it is, but as we are."
"In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself."
"You're - psychotic. There's something wrong with you."I know," Benteley agreed. "I'm a sick man. And the more I see, the sicker I get. I'm so sick I think everybody else is sick and I'm the only healthy person. That's pretty bad off, isn't it?"
"We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world."
"Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it."
"I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger."
"The real world is where the monsters are."
"Everything changes as you move through three stages of awareness:first, that beliefs are the result of conditions;second, that beliefs are the cause of conditions;and third, that beliefs are themselves conditions."
"Escape from reality. In some instances, dissociation induces people to imagine that they have some kind of mastery over intractable environmental difficulties. Dissociation is often implicated in magical thinking or self-induced trance states. This aspect of dissociation is frequently found in abuse survivors. It is not uncommon for abused children to engage in magical thinking to retain an illusion of control over the situation (e.g., believing that they "cause" the perpetrator to act out)."
"5 words of advice to reduce stress - "Connect with your Soul's power" or "Change your reality through Coaching"."
"If you believe that you are not omnipresent, omniscient, and ultimately omnipotent, then you are deluded."
"When you mix with the wrong energy, there's bound to be an explosion. Pay attention and switch lanes when the signal changes. What's really real, is ultimately revealed."
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