Mustafa Ali Quotes

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

Perception is reality.

The world is my representation

I'm trying to get more into other things, where reality is nothing but each individual's way of thinking.

What you see is evidence of what you believe.

Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

I'm less interested in reality. I'm more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see.

Truth is, in fact, an elusive concept. It depends almost entirely on where you are standing at the time. It is a human instinct to confuse belief with truth.

People just see what they want to see.

What is my truth can not be your truth.

The prism through which you experience life is so unique. There is no objective experience.

What we believe, we see.

What you believe you experience.

I never believe I'm presenting objective reality; I also don't want to delude people into thinking that my subject is talking directly to them.

The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people witness an event, there will be ten - or a hundred - different versions of what took place. What we see and how we interpret it depends entirely upon our individual past experience.

You believe that you live in the world, where in fact the world lives within you.

You don't want to know the Truth, you want to know the truth as you understand it. This is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment. You think you already know the truth! You think you already understand how it is. So you agree with everything you see or hear or read that falls into the paradigm of your understanding, and reject everything which does not.

People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?

What we experience is our own concept of things. That is why no two people see quite the same world, and why, in many cases, different people see such different worlds. To put it another way, we make our own world by the way in which we think; for we really do live in a world of our own thoughts.

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.