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Reality Quotes by Henepola Gunaratana
- Real peace comes only when you stop chasing it. When you relax your driving desire for comfort, real fulfillment arises. When you drop your hectic…
- Buddhism advises you not to implant feelings that you don’t really have or avoid feelings that you do have. If you are miserable you are…
- We usually do not look into what is really there in front of us. We see life through a screen of thoughts and concepts, and…
- Vipassana: looking into something with clarity and precision, seeing each component as distinct, piercing all the way through so as to perceive the most fundamental…
More Reality Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships… — J. J. Abrams
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain… — Karen Armstrong
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- Geologists have a saying - rocks remember. — Neil Armstrong
- Journalism is literature in a hurry. — Matthew Arnold
- Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. — Arthur Ashe
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov