Underlying Reality Quotes

This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality.

Reality is modest, it won't be seen naked.

It is hidden but always present.

There is so much more to this world then outward appearances. Our society basks in the illusion of normalcy every day, and hides from the truth every night.

Seek a reality deeper than the changing forms.

The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact

The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.

I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.

You can say, 'Well, isn't it unfortunate that chaos is represented by the feminine' - well, it might be unfortunate, but it doesn't matter, because that is how it's represented. It's been represented like that forever. And there are reasons for it. You can't change it. It's not possible. This is underneath everything.

I've loved physics from a young age, but I've also been interested in all sorts of big questions, from philosophy to evolution and neuroscience. And what those fields have in common is that they all aim to capture certain aspects of the same underlying universe.

The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.

In real science a hypothesis can never be proved true...A science which confines itself to correlating phenomena can never learn anything about the reality underlying the phenomena, while a science which goes further than this and introduces hypotheses about reality, can never acquire certain knowledge of a positive kind about reality; in whatever way we proceed, this is forever denied us.

Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body was like that. If you watched it carefully enough you could see how it moved to the rhythm of the world, the deep rhythm, the music below the music, the truth below the truth. He believed in this hidden truth the way other men believed in God or love, believed that truth was in fact always hidden, that the apparent, the overt, was invariably a kind of lie.

Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the thing that lies under the surface will be found upon your canvas.

This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.

Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe.

Have you ever felt that there was something going on in life that not everyone was aware of?

I believe there's a landscape that exists underneath everything that we can see in present-day stuff. And I think that makes life kind of a detective story.

There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace.

Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.

I think that I'm always trying to get beyond the surface appearance of things, to go beyond what I can just see.

Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

God is not someone or something separate but is the suchness in each moment, the underlying reality.