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Silver Lining Of Your Cloud
Life Quotes and Sayings
Reality
The true purpose is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and
to let everything go as it goes. ~Shunryu Suzuki
Reality is the only true therapy. ~Alan Cohen
There is one thing you can always rely on: life being as it is. ~Charlotte Joko
Beck
We see the world, not the way it is, but the way we are. ~Talmud
To see things for what they are is to see with the eyes of the vastness itself.
~Suzanne Segal
Things are not what they appear to be, nor are they otherwise. ~Surangama
Sutra
Your perception of the world around you is not necessarily the same as what
is actually occurring. ~Peter Ralston
If you understand, things are just as they are; If you do not understand, things
are just as they are.~unknown
Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are. ~Vernon
Howard
Confused by thoughts, we experience duality in life. Unencumbered by ideas,
the enlightened see the one Reality. ~Hui-Neng
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts.
So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion. ~Alan Watts
But opinions, judgments, memories, dreaming about the future—ninety
percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential reality.
~Charlotte J. Beck
As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon
as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw. ~Shuryu
Suzuki-Roshi
As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see
how it is. ~Ram Dass
The mind searches for a formula, a code of living. The truth is you have
plenty of formulas, plenty of codes, and the absolute truth is free of it all.
~Gangaji
The universe is wider than our views of it. ~Henry David Thoreau
Reality can only be seen in the absence of thought and belief. ~Scott Kiloby
The secret of seeing things as they are is to take off our colored spectacles.
That being-as-it-is, with nothing extraordinary about it, nothing wonderful, is
the great wonder. ~Master Sessan
The good news is: If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The
recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your
mistaking it for reality. In the seeing of who you are not, the reality of who
you are emerges by itself. ~Eckhart Tolle
We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality, we are that
reality. When we understand this you see you are nothing, and in being
nothing you are everything. ~Buddha
The enlightened man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not
act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering. ~Buddha
Since everything is but an illusion,
perfect in being what it is,
having nothing to do with good or bad,
acceptance or rejection,
one might as well burst out laughing!
~Longchenpa
What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things…it is
impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its
exterior surface. ~Constantin Brancusi
Beyond the beauty of external forms, there is more here: something that
cannot be named, something ineffable, some deep, inner, holy essence.
Whenever and wherever there is beauty, this inner essence shines through
somehow. It only reveals itself to you when you are present. ~Eckhart Tolle
This present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply
our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present
moment is nirvana. ~Alan W. Watts
One cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of
eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. ~Albert Einstein
Life is a mystery, which means your thinking mind cannot make sense out of
it. For that you’ve go to wake up and then you’ll suddenly realize that reality
is not problematic, you are the problem. ~Anthony de Mello
When I cease to own [physical or emotional pain], I liberate myself from its
bondage and see it simply as it is. ~Tony Parsons
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by
someone who is detached. ~Simone Weil
Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our
imagination than in reality. ~Seneca
Problems exist only in the human mind. ~Anthony de Mello
As soon as the mind says something shouldn’t have happened, we are in an
argument with reality. Reality is simply what it is. As soon as we have
anything in us that judges it, that condemns it, that says it shouldn’t be, we
will feel division. There isn’t a justified reason to argue with reality, because
we’ll never win the fight. Arguing with reality is a perfect prescription for
suffering. ~Adyashanti
As soon as the mind pulls out an agenda and decides what needs to change,
that’s unreality. Life doesn’t need to decide who’s right and who’s wrong. Life
doesn’t need to know the “right” way to go because it’s going there anyway.
~Adyashanti
When your illusions clash with reality, when your falsehoods clash with truth,
then you have suffering. ~Anthony de Mello
Chasing after fantasies is always a bad idea. Stick with reality. Reality’s all
you’ve got. But here’s the real secret, the real miracle: It’s enough. ~Brad
Warner
As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not
reality itself. ~Shunryu Suzuki
There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in
fact we are reality. ~Ramana Maharshi
Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no
comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly
arranged constellations. ~Alan Watts
Freedom is instantaneous the moment we accept things are they are. ~Karen
Maezen Miller
In the simple, direct experience of what is, you have an ongoing opportunity
to awaken out of the trance the mind perpetuates to the radiant fullness and
completeness of being. Just keep letting go and surrendering to what is.
~Stephan Bodian
In reality there are no others, and by helping yourself you help everybody
else. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj
I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and
behold the reality beneath. ~Kahlil Gibran
When you awaken, you realize that the separate person you took yourself to
be is just a contract, a mental fabrication. ~Stephan Bodian
When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you will
keep saying again and again, this is certainly not like we thought it was.
~Rumi
I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I
wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly
dreaming that I am a man? ~Chuang Tzu
Once you understand reality; although illusory perceptions of the world may
arise in your mind, you will be like the sky; when a rainbow appears in front
of it, it’s not particularly flattered, and when the clouds appear, it’s not
particularly disappointed either. There is a deep sense of contentment. ~Dilgo
Khyentse Rinpoche
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them–that
only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in
whatever way they like. ~Lao Tzu
I begin to understand as never before that holiness is made of dailiness, of
living life as it comes to me, not as I insist it be. ~Joan Chittister
Learn to wish that everything should come to pass exactly as it does.
~Epictetus
The ability to experience and to flow with what is signals the beginning of the
unification of mind, body, and spirit. ~W. Brugh Joy
