Reality

"Even in expecting, one leaps away from the possible and gets a footing in the real. It is for its reality that what is expected is expected. By the very nature of expecting, the possible is drawn into the real, arising from it and returning to it."

"Reality is only a dream, based on values and well worn principles, whereas the dream goes on forever."

"You don't speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them."

"Newton's laws of physics can rarely be applied to the real world. There is more to life than cause and effect. Things just aren't that simple"

"Harsh reality is always better than false hope."

"When he placed a candle on the shelf across the room from him and lit its wick, he came to realize that in fact everything he saw was a flat surface, like a screen – that in fact dimension was an illusion. Everything was a flat surface and the pinpoints of light, whether from a candle on the shelf or a gaslamp above the street, were punctures in that surface – gashes made by somebody behind the screen. He realized then that beyond everything he saw there was an entire realm of blazing sunfire, and that colors were only the silhouettes of people in that realm – walking, eating, dancing, doing whatever they were doing behind the screen. “It astonished Adolphe that everyone failed to realize they were just figures on a tapestry, the shadows of something else. He was therefore amused by the conceit of women, for instance, who who admired the creamy color of their skin when in fact it was only the haze of some other woman behind the vast screen staring into a mirror. Adolphe could explain all of this to himself but he could not explain Janine: Janine wasn't the same as the others. Janine was like their mother; and Adolphe decided Lulu was from this place beyond the surface, and she had, perhaps when she was a little girl, slipped through. “Adolphe wondered why Lulu hadn't told them about this, and then realized she probably would when she thought they were old enough to understand it. He could see it wasn't something one would want to tell a child too soon."

"The real world is oftentimes different from what you expect it to be, what you think it to be, and what people might say it to be."

"Some churches, sects, cults, or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigidly identified with their mental positions as the followers of any political ideology that is closed to any alternative interpretation of reality."

"Putting heart & soul & contributing to what you are good at... is only for that movement. All is forgotten & people sitting far a distance knowingly wouldn't accept the same. Ultimately we make no difference & ground zero reality is never taken into account."

"Reality is reality when it exists inside and outside the mind."

"Tell me something wonderful," he said to Dane. "Tell me that we are going to die dreamfully and loved in our sleep."You're always writing one of your plays on the phone," said Dane."I said, something wonderful. Say something about springtime."It is sloppy and wet. It is a beast from the sea."Ah," said Harry."

"Jump in the urinal and stand on your head. I'm the one that's alive. You're all dead."

"He lived decades ago,she lives at the moment. A very saddening reality for her."

"You might plan how you sleep but you can't plan how you wake up. He who plans how to sleep is a Planner, he who plans how to wake up is a Dreamer."

"What do I think? I think it makes no difference what I think."

"Your biggest dreams can become reality, not by brute-forcing the end-goal, but breaking it down into smaller, more manageable parts. If your goal takes years, breaking it down into months and days will let you improve your lot little bits at a time."

"Reality went out the window the moment we started mediating sensory input through a nervous system. You want to actually perceive the universe directly, without any stupid scribbles or model-building? Become a protozoan."

"No person wakes up and finds themselves on the world stage. When that happens, it is in the movies."

"When people are facing real hardships in their lives, they have no time to invent imaginary ones."

"And that's my comfort--that someone else was there and experienced the same thing. How else could I know it was real and not merely a dream?"