“Open your eyes. Reality awaits.”
“He sees her looking at him with interest, and is encouraged to go on. I wouldn t be here with you now. This wouldn t be real - something else would. You d have been another you, instead of the one you are now. You can t be tied down to a predestined fate when you change according to your situation, and your fate must change too. Everything depends on circumstances - on which you you happen to be at a given time...”
“Margaux looks around the table; this is not working. All of a sudden she s thinking about a safe room, something she s only heard of but suddenly wants: water, oxygen, bulletproof door, dead bolts, a thousand books. Utterly quiet. Completely silent. No girls she barely knows in saggy leather pants, no girls in mesh strippers gloves and jeans sanded thin as a bee s wing, and no girls who can t stay home one night a year because they are always and forever out. On their way to. Coming from. And then her heart open. Just a little, but it does. Because she remembers all that. How she felt then: the self-reproach, the utter confusion... That s why her heart opens. For those girls at the table who always feel baffled and sad, tender and malign, repulsive and desirable, innocent and contemptuous of innocence. So she cries. For them, mostly. For herself a little... everything hesitates. So that for a second there s no sound in the enormous room but that of Margaux sobbing.”
“Age is just reality we create for ourselves.”
“The line between fiction and fact is at times factual and at times fictional”
“Your perception determines your reality.”
“Perception, influenced by experience and knowledge creates an acceptable level of reality.”
“While we can certainly be mistaken at times about what is real, there is indeed a reality to know. Mistakes actually prove the point. We would not know there were such things as hallucinations or illusions if we did not have reality with which to compare them.”
“Timelessness is realizing that everything that has ever or will ever happen already exists simultaneously in another reality or dimension.”
“If something you desire is not happening, you are not emotionally or mentally ready for it yet. Make your mental adjustment in the now, and the reality will follow.”
“We choose our present moment. The choices we make here and now is what shape our reality tomorrow.”
“Each being in the universe, therefore, inhabits a private world. It is as if the universe were populated by countless cinemas, each occupied by a single person, each eternally viewing a different film projected by consciousness, each eternally suspending disbelief. For the Yogacara, ignorance and suffering result from believing the movie to be real, from mistaking the projections to be an external world, from thinking that what appear to be external objects are independent of consciousness, and then running after them, desiring some and hating others. For the Yogacara, wisdom is the insight that everything is of the nature of consciousness and the product of one s own projections. With this insight, desire and hatred, attachment and aversion, naturally cease, for their objects are seen to be illusions. With the achievement of enlightenment, the substratum consciousness is transformed into the mirror like wisdom of a buddha.”
“Adventure is the best way to feel the reality thoroughly!”
“Everyone is the creator of their own perceived illusion of reality.”