Reality

"Reality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins."

"Being in a wheelchair has made everyday things difficult. Things you wouldn't imagine. Like the looks I get at high school basketball games when they tell everyone to stand for the National Anthem."

"People debate over whether or not there is a literal Hell, in the literal sense often described as fire and eternal torture, which, to many, seems to be too harsh a punishment. If men really want to fear something, they should be fearing separation from God, the supposedly more comforting alternative to a literal Hell. For separation from the authorship of love, mercy, and goodness is the ultimate torture. If you think a literal Hell sounds too bad, you are very much underestimating the pain of being absolutely, wholly separated from the goodness while exposed to the reality of the holiness of God."

"The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works."

"Look at yourself, you’re old, too, but still doing your work. This is what we are, Philips. This is what we are."

"Her name had the likeness of a name. She had the likeness of a woman, with hands but no face at all, since she never let herself see it. She had the likeness of a life, because she was all alone in it. She lived in the likeness of a house, with walls and a roof and a door that kept nothing in and nothing out."

"Nowhere is it writ that anthropoid apes should understand reality."

"My dream was one day ordering a drink and finding out it tasted wonderful."

"I am not a human being enjoying a spiritual life, I am a spiritual being enjoying a human life."

"Rebels revel in rewriting reality's restrictions."

"Often what people don't say or leave out, tells the real story."

"a good idea is only good if thereis a well-thought-out plan tomake it a reality."

"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."

"But George knows he can't do that. Because, absurdly, inadequately, in spite of himself, almost, he is a representative of the hope. And the hope is not false. No. It's just that George is like a man trying to sell a real diamond for a nickel, on the street. The diamond is protected from all but the tiniest few, because the great hurrying majority can never stop to dare to believe that it could conceivably be real."

"What's really weird is my mom's clothes smell like her. I mean, her perfume, and so all day it's like m mom has been walking right beside me. Which, you have to admit, a pretty freaky feeling."

"Everything is as real as nothing, whatever way the nothing itself is defined."

"An individual's perception is their reality colored in the shades they desire--not necessarily the color that it is."

"If you have to cut corners to get it, without allowing yourself go through the process, you will not be able to keep it."

"Never shut off pain till it eats you up completely. Ensure you find someone you can confide in and trust, share your burdens, cry if you need to by letting it all out. No one is conditioned for pain. We all need to address it and let it go, knowing we cannot change the past but we can make a brighter future out of the lessons learned."

"When love speaks it is about us or we. When ego speaks it is about I or me."