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Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

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As you walk, you cut open and create that riverbed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.
The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action.
What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream.…
To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the…
As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust.
Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover its meaning you must let it burst inside…
As long as our souls remain strong, that is all that matters; as long as they don't decline. Because with the fall…
No! No! Never acknowledge the limitations of man. Smash all boundaries! Deny whatever your eyes see. Die every moment, but say: Death…
I surrender myself to everything. I love, I feel pain, I struggle. The world seems to me wider than the mind, my…
What is love? It is not simply compassion, not simply kindness. In compassion there are two: the one who suffers and the…
The dual substance of Christ- the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God... has always been a deep inscrutable…
I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen...

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When your mind is set in meditative equipoise, you can see reality exactly as it is — Gautama Buddha
Leaders must see reality as it is, not as it ought to be. — Benjamin Netanyahu
If you have peace of mind, when you meet with problems and difficulties they won’t disturb your inner peace. You’ll be able… — Dalai Lama
You can move beyond the ego's perspective and see reality from the perspective of a higher consciousness. — Steve Pavlina
To see Reality is as simple as to see one’s face in a mirror. Only, the mirror must be clear and true.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
[T]ake the war on drugs. The average American says, "The war on drugs has been beneficial." The rest of us see reality.… — Jacob G. Hornberger
All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image… — Ernst Gombrich
Love teaches us how to penetrate the inner worlds, to clean the glass of existence and see reality in its perfect essence. — Frederick Lenz
One of the great mysteries of our current state of consciousness is how we can live in a world where absolutely nothing… — Joseph Jaworski
You see reality TV and it's not reality TV. It's contrived and everything is plotted and scripted nearly. Documentaries are the same… — Ricky Gervais
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. — Nikos Kazantzakis
Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from… — Albert Schweitzer

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