Michael Dyson Quotes

Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.

Reminding people what in reality it is all about, giving them a theme on which to ponder, creating a shock within them, pulling them out of the delusion of non authenticity, enabling them to become aware of their true possibilities.

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

What we see changes who we are.

I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actors need to act all the time to make up for some deficiency in their sense of themselves.

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

I am a man for whom the outside world exists.

Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.

I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.

People aren't interested in seeing themselves as they really are.

The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.

Before you go through with an experience, think about what you expect it to feel like. Once you've experienced it, reflect on whether your expectations differed from reality.

Life's harsh. You can't escape what you are and what you project.

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

The world is a reflection of who we are and if we don't like the reflection, it doesn't really help to break the mirror.

Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.

I realize that I'm kind of a different person than I thought I was.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.

Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there.

It never occurs to me that I'd be intimidating to anybody. Maybe I should consider that.

He who sees his soul is more than his life does not confuse the two.

I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change the way I see the world within me.