Margaret Halsey Quotes

Our consciousness is our contribution to reality. What we perceive as real, becomes real.

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because we tell ourselves that that is the way it is.

You say they create their own reality," said Veronika, "but what is reality?

I create my own reality. And I'm not the only one. My reality is becoming more prominent.

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.

I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make.

Now that's a concept that's always fascinated me: the real world. Only a very specific subset of people use the term, have you noticed? To me, it seems self-evident that everyone lives in the real world - we all breathe real oxygen, eat real food, the earth under our feet feels equally solid to all of us. But clearly these people have a far more tightly circumscribed definition of reality, one that I find deeply mysterious, and an almost pathologically intense need to bring others into line with that definition.

Quantum physics tells us that nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer. That statement, from science, holds an enormous and powerful insight. It means that everyone sees a different truth because everyone is creating what they see.

When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.

Reality is not so much what happens to us; rather, it is how we think about those events that create the reality we experience. In a very real sense, this means that we each create the reality in which we live.

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

What you experience as "reality," including your physical body and aging, is shaped by your habits of perception.

You're only infallible about your own nervous system. You know what's going on in your own nervous system, whatever realities you're creating out of the infinite flux of being. You don't know anything about anybody else's reality unless they tell you about it. You gotta listen very sympathetically in order to understand them. So it's a limited infallibility.

Reality is fabricated out of desire.

Reality is what one makes it. And the more negative reality one nurtures and creates, the more of it one has.

The dream of life is really an illusion, and everybody lives in the reality he or she creates - a virtual reality that is only true for the one who creates it.

Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.

Nothing's real unless you want it to be, and anything can be real if you want it to enough; so real doesn't really mean anything.

I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our senses, which is imperfect and circumscribed.

In all aspects of life... we define our reality in terms of metaphors and then proceed to act on the basis of the metaphors. We draw inferences, set goals, make commitments, and execute plans, all on the basis of how we in part structure our experience, consciously and unconsciously, by means of metaphor.

In reality, our mind is the creator of all the things we experience.

The universe is in the experience. It's not just out there. What's out there, we don't know. But for humans it's an experience just like the universe for a dolphin or an insect with 100 eyes is a different experience. Our universe is a human universe experienced in human consciousness and, unless we understand how consciousness operates, we will never actually be able to participate in the creation of our personal and collective reality.

Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse.