Ram Dass Quotes

Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?

Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

All experience is subjective.

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.

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

Perception is reality. People take what they want to from things.

One place exists as their interpretation of it. For the people living and thriving inside of it, it's another place.

It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.

Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality...Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.

It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.

The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.

As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.

My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.

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

There are many levels of truth.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.

People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.

What we think about Paris is a part of how we feel about it. Our idea of Paris is our idea and we don't know that that's not necessarily the way it really is. It feels so real.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven

The world you perceive is a drastically simplified model of the real world.

We all look at the same object in different ways.