Reality Shaping Quotes

The telling of stories creates the real world.

Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?

Belief creates the actual fact.

Truly, thoughts are things, and their scope of operation is the world itself.

Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities.

The Law of Concentration states that whatever you dwell upon, grows. The more you think about something, the more it becomes part of your reality.

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

Imagination creates reality.

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

After all, if we are co-creators of our reality, as so many philosophies have espoused, then we have a say in how it is, how it goes and our participation in it, right?

We don't realize how much we create reality through language. If we say that life is hard, it will be hard.

All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.

Every thought we think is creating our future.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

Language creates reality. Words have power. Speak always to create joy.

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

Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.

In a reality made of energy, thoughts may literally be things. What if it was intended that we create our own realities after death?

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

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

Thought makes reality.

One thing is certain: That is that the power of belief, the power of thought, will move reality in the direction of what we believe and conceive of it. If you really believe you can do something, you can. That is a fact.

Chaos magic is the idea that a particular set of beliefs serves as an active force in the world. In other words, we choose what and how we believe, and our beliefs are tools that we then use to make things happen... or not.

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff of chaos and impose a beginning, middle, and end on it, like the simplest and most profound of folktales, to reflect the shapes of our own tiny lives? And if the physicists are right, that the physical world changes as it is observed, and we are its only known observers, then might we not be bending the entire chaotic universe, the eternal, ever-active Now, to fit that familiar form?