Reality - the ultimate obsession of man

-Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

Reality!
What a concept!
-Robin Williams

I have no words for my reality.

-Max Frisch

The word "reality" is also a word,
a word which we must learn to use correctly.
-Niels Bohr

There is a visible reality
and an invisible one.
Both are equally real.
-Toni Carmine Salerno

Human beings are interested in two things.
They are interested in the reality
and interested in telling about it.
-Gertrude Stein

Reality is what is.
-Steven Gray, "Adyashanti"

Everything is real,
so long as you do not take it for more than it is.
-Bernard Bosanquet

Existence is a structural principle of reality.
Nothing is real without having an existence aspect,
a being aspect.
-Haridas Chaudhuri

Everything is a reality of some kind.
-Manly Hall

We live in our description of reality.
-Gregory Bateson

Is there a reality without our projection?
-Carolyn Mary Kleefeld

"Reality" is the temporary resultant 

of continuous struggles

between rival gangs of programmers.

-Robert Anton Wilson 

Repetition is reality,

and it is the seriousness of life.

-Soren Kierkegaard

Reality isn't what it used to be.
-Walter Truett Anderson

Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms.
-Jorge Luis Borges

I must not look on reality
as being like myself.
-Paul Eluard

Reality is perhaps not at all what I imagine.
Perhaps it doesn't exist, in fact.
Perhaps it only exists as a longing.
-Ingmar Bergman

How can I find anything more fantastic than reality?
-Fyodor Dostoevsky

Reality is rediscovered
as a particular case of the possible.
-Gaston Bachelard

Reality is never 'what we might believe it to be':
it is always what we ought to have thought.
-Gaston Bachelard

The reality we experience in ordinary states of consciousness
is due to the constructive interference of the dynamic phases of 'actions'
associated with each of the indefinite number of coexisting universes.
-Jack Sarfatti and Bob Toben

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions
are really based on vicarious experience.
-Albert Bandura

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own,
serves only to make us ever more unknown,
ever less free, ever more solitary.
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life
but one's meditations on the text
and the disclosures on these meditations
are no less a part of the structure of reality.
-Wallace Stevens

Meditation is a much more substantial reality
than what we normally take to be reality.
-Richard Gere

I accept reality
and dare not question it.
-Walt Whitman

We accept reality so readily -
perhaps because we sense nothing is real.
-Jorge Luis Borges

Reality is not limited to the body and mind.
-Jean Klein

Reality is neither a product of the mind
nor the result of a whole train of thoughts.
It just is.
-Jean Klein

Reality is beyond thought.
The only thing that thought can do about reality is postulate it.
It can affirm it, but it can never define it.
-Manly Hall

Your thoughts do not create reality.
They either permit it or they do not.
-Alan Cohen

Your agreement with reality defines your life.
-Steve Maraboli

Face reality as it is,
not as it was or as you wish it to be.
-Jack Welch

Either you deal with what is the reality
or you can be sure the reality is going to deal with you.
-Alex Haley

We can evade reality,
but we cannot evade the consequences
of evading reality.
-Ayn Rand

Bad humor is an evasion of reality;
good humor is an acceptance of it.
-Malcolm Muggeridge

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye
and denying it.
-Garrison Keillor

It is not necessary to deny another's reality
in order to affirm your own.
-Anne Wilson Schaef

It's not denial.

I'm just selective about the reality I accept.

-Bill Watterson

Realities are versions and everybody is one.
-John Sandbach

No two people have the same reality.
-Gary Zukav

Everyone is entitled
to a reality of their own choosing.
-Richard M. Poniarski

Reality is the other person's idea

of how things should be.

-John M. Shanahan

There are many sides to reality.
Choose the one that's best for you.
-Eugene Ionesco

The people who say you are not facing reality
actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality.
Reality is above all else a variable.
With a firm enough commitment,
you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.
-Margaret Halsey

There is no unique picture of reality.
-Stephen Hawking

Reality is that which satisfies
the vital, essential need of a person or a collectivity.
-Dane Rudhyar

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything
before admitting its reality.
-Thomas Nagel

We don't live in a world of reality;
we live in a world of perceptions.
-Gerald J. Simmons

The paradox of reality
is that no image is as compelling as the one
which exists only in the mind's eye.
-Shana Alexander

What you see in your mind's eye
is your reality.
-Robert E. Svoboda

You create your reality
according to your beliefs.
-Jane Roberts, "Seth"

What’s real to you
is what you imagine and what you feel.
-Scott Adams

"Reality" is a function of the individual.
It is the result of the specific virtues and limitations
of individual consciousness.
-Heinrich Zimmer

Reality is emotional, intellectual,
psychological and spiritual as well as physical,
but try explaining that to a goldfish.
-Judith Viorst

There is no reality except the one contained within us.
That is why so many people live such an unreal life.
They take images outside them for reality
and never allow the world within to assert itself.
-Hermann Hesse

Reality is not entirely real to me.
-Etty Hillesum

There was reality and there was reality;
and some things were more real than others.
-Neil Gaiman

I enter the world called real
as one enters a mist.
-Julien Green

Reality is a cliche
from which we escape by metaphor.
-Wallace Stevens

There are so many kinds of reality,
and so many secret openings in the walls we think are mute.
-Helene Cixous

Reality however has a sliding floor.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything you can imagine is real.
-Pablo Picasso

What is reality?
An icicle forming in fire.
-Dogen

Reality is not what it is.
It consists of many realities which it can be made into.
-Wallace Stevens

'Reality' is some kind of ontological silly-putty.
-Robert Anton Wilson

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot,
you know.
-Alan Watts

Reality is not always probable,
or likely.
-Jorge Luis Borges

I can no longer tell the dream from reality.
Into what world shall I awake,
from this bewildering dream?
-Akazome Emon

Reality can destroy the dream;
why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?
-George Moore

For I see now that I am asleep
that I dream when I am awake.
-Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
-John Lennon

Few people have the imagination for reality.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no real reality
to a really imagined life any more.
-Gertrude Stein

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion.
The great task in life is to find reality.
-Iris Murdoch

We live in our fantasies
and endure our realities.
-Robert Anton Wilson

Be it life or death,
we crave only reality.
-Henry David Thoreau

Humankind
Cannot bear very much reality.
-T. S. Eliot

People want to see the face of reality
with the eyes of illusion.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

We are the ignorance 

which blocks out reality.

-Zen Graffiti

The human mind can bear plenty of reality
but not too much intermittent gloom.
-Margaret Drabble

The highest grade of reality
is only reached by signs.
-Charles Sanders Peirce

Reality is always here.
-A Course in Miracles

Reality is where we are
from moment to moment.
-Robert Linssen

The moment is the sole reality.
-Karl Jaspers

There is just no end to reality.
You can keep going closer to it,
but you never ever come out the other end.
-Joseph Raffael

Reality is an ocean,
but we take it away in teacups.
-Deepak Chopra

Reality is always greater - much greater -
than what we know, than what we can ever say about it.
-Michael Crichton

In order to more fully understand this reality,
we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.
-John Archibald Wheeler

The external life
is but the shadow of the inner reality.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being,
another altogether different reality lies concealed.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Reality is itself a shadow,
only an appearance accepted by those
whose eyes shun what might lie beyond.
-Louis L'Amour

All this existence which is before us
and which is subject to change and death is not reality;
it cannot be reality;
but we can only see this
when we have acquired some knowledge of reality.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

Reality is something you rise above.
-Liza Minnelli

By rising above facts,
we touch reality.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality,
because reality is a spirit.
-Gilbert K. Chesterton

Absolute Spirit
is the fundamental reality.
-Ken Wilber

The genuinely real
is what cannot be thought conceptually.
-Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker

He who confronts the paradoxical
exposes himself to reality.
-Friedrich Durrenmatt

Polarity is the loom
upon which reality is strung.
-Mayan Proverb

Reality is that
against which there are no counter-arguments.
-Naropa

Reality itself is its own evidence.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it,
doesn't go away.
-Philip K. Dick

Reality has no shape or form,
And it leaves no footprints.
-Baekun Gyeonghan

As long as you seek for something,
you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.
-Shunryu Suzuki

The region of Reality.
Unchanging principle.
-James Allen

Reality is changeless.
-A Course in Miracles

The test of Reality:
That which never changes.
-Kenneth G. Mills

What is real is not the exterior
but the idea, the essence of things.
-Constantin Brancusi

Reality consists of pure consciousness.
-David Frawley

'Reality' is your ever-present consciousness.
-Wei Wu Wei

Reality is simply the loss of the ego.

-Ramana Maharshi

One's own mind, unwavering, is reality.
-Niguma

No reality is to be found
other than in our hearts and minds.
-Nichiren

If you use your mind to study reality,
you won't understand your mind or reality.
If you study reality without using your mind,
you'll understand both.
-Bodhidharma

The One Reality is neither Spirit nor Matter
but both.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram

Reality alone exists - and that we are.
-Wei Wu Wei

He who has found the indwelling Reality of his own being
has found the original and universal Reality.
-James Allen

It is through your own bodies
that reality is perceived.
-Vimalakirti

Now that I've shed my skin completely,
One true reality alone exists.
-Zen Saying

The closer one approaches reality,
the nearer one comes to unity.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

In real existence
there is only unity.
-Djalal ad-Din Rumi

For one who knows Reality,
the whole world is her wealth.
She cannot see anything different
from her own Self.
-Mata Amritanandamayi