Reality

"If you had told me, though, when I was twenty-four that I would write about Skokie, Illinois, where I grew up, I would have said, ‘You’re out of your mind. Why would I have Skokie in a poem?’ But you become resigned. Your job is to write about the life you actually have."

"After four thousand years we can’t even prove that reality exists beyond the mind of the first-person dreamer."

"To be a futurist, in pursuit of improving reality, is not to have your face continually turned upstream, waiting for the future to come. To improve reality is to clearly see where you are, and then wonder how to make that better."

"It’s stupid, but it’s human, and that’s how it is."

"Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel."

"There's the parent you want and the parent you have."

"When we choose to operate on the frequency of compassion and kindness, we create, and reinforce our own realities, as filled with compassion and kindness."

"When we understand who we are, and how our realities work, we can choose more consciously to shape our lives in an optimal way. Knowledge of oneself is the very key to a happy life. Happiness is not something outside of our own consciousness that needs to be earned, and achieved. It is a choice that needs to be supported by positive actions. It is not enough to say that we want to be happy. Our desire of happiness, love and peace, needs to be supported by our state of being."

"Life as we know it is our perception of reality."

"Reality is a life sentence."

"Even if you time travel your past, it can't be changed, likewise you can't possibly change your future, it is always the present which matters."

"Reality is but several levels of consciousness that can be accepted or dismissed depending on what one perceives."

"One cannot live on dreams, but neither can one live without them."

"No opionions, just strongly held convictions."

"Only a starving man asks bread from a begger"

"There is no truth. There is only perceptionand perception is reality!"

"We all are beautiful, let's not pretend to be ugly."

"At what point do you no longer need other people to support the decisions you’ve made about your own reality?"

"Part ways with your perception of reality, allow the unknown and your curiosity muster into a visual you've never allowed yourself to see."

"Fiction has to be well researched, properly conceived and logically presented. Reality needs none of the above."