Ze Frank Quotes

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.

What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?

There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.

When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.

...dreams were dreams and reality was reality and she felt people were better off understanding the difference.

If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine own dreams I'll take And for truth commune with imaginings

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

Your harshest truths are dreams, and your gentlest dreams are true.

That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?

The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality

Dreams are imperfections of sleep; even so is consciousness the imperfection of waking. Dreams are impurities in the circulation of the blood; even so it's consciousness a disorder of life. Dreams are without proportion, without good sense, without truth; so also is consciousness. Awake from dream, the truth is known: awake from waking. The truth is: The Unknown

How much of what we call 'reality' is actually out there or rather within our own head?

If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking.

The world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?

[D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening in our minds is all and everything that happens.

And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.