Acknowledging Reality Quotes

You cannot resist something to which you grant no reality. The act of resisting a thing is the act of granting it life. When you resist an energy, you place it there. The more you resist, the more you make it real-whatever it is you are resisting." "Every human being is as special as every other human being who has ever lived, lives now, or every will live. You are all meesengers. Every one of you. You are carrying a message to life about life every day. Every hour. Every moment.

When truth presents itself, the wise person see the light, takes it in, and makes adjustments. The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it.

Acceptance is the embracing of what happens. Acceptance is a way of getting in touch with the deeper, timeless dimension of aware presence, simply through accepting that this is what is happening or this is what I am feeling or thinking.

Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.

When you srgue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

I believe in conscious creation, that my thoughts create my reality. But, at the same time, I don't believe that ignoring something will make it disappear.

One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.

The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.

His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you.

It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness.

Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening is more important than trying to control people.

The act of resisting something is the act of granting it life... the more you resist, the more you make it real - whatever it is you are resisting.

We must face life as it is and understand that diversity is its most essential feature.

The truth is a bully we all pretend to like

Your father always tries to see the good side of people; to find the excuse. But sometimes there isn't a good side. There isn't an excuse. (Mom - to Lara Lington)

Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.

When everyone in America knows you're in a dreadful position, admit you're in a dreadful position. Don't lie about it and make them roll their eyes, tell the truth and make them blink.

Arguing with reality it like trying to teach a cat to bark.

Fiction that does not acknowledge this at least tacitly is not true.

It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to be able to afford to nurse illusions. We must look at realities.

Reality is a magic lady, sometimes very mysterious. To me she is very passionate. She is real not only when she is awake, walking down the streets, but also at night when she is dreaming or when she is having nightmares. When I am writing, I am always paying tribute to her - to that lady called Reality.