#real

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place. ↗

— Angela Carter

#cults #does #emotional #father #first

I’m not brave, just curious. ↗

— Tami Egonu A Rhapsody of Dreams

#romance #dreams

Most of us spend life in a trance. Only those who bridge the gap between reality and dreams succeed. ↗

— Saru Singhal

#reality #success #dreams

Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#enlightenment #self-realization #spirituality #dreams

And in vain the dreamer rakes over his old dreams, as though seeking a spark among the embers, to fan them into flame, to warm his chilled heart by the rekindled fire, and to rouse up in it again all that was so sweet, that touched his heart, that set his blood boiling, drew tears from his eyes, and so luxuriously deceived him! ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#fantasy #reality #dreams

Some people see things as they are and say, 'why'? I dream things that never were and say, 'why not'? ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#future #hope #reality #dreams

We become increasingly aware that the human dream, the human drama, with all its questionable, damaging, and often malevolent intention is not real life at all. ↗

— Donna Goddard

#dreams #maturity #real-life #reality #soul

Sometimes i only sleep to wake up ↗

— Saahil Prem

#life #philosophy #reality #sleeplessness #dreams

I'll tell you what's real. Real is that I was in jail for the past year, rooming with drug dealers and eating crap food your dog wouldn't touch. Real is not being able to wear your own frickin' underwear and showering with twenty-five other dicks every day while guards watch. Real is my next-door neighbor who walks like she's balancing on stilts because her leg is so fucked up from the accident. Brian, your perception of reality is totally off. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#caleb #reality #self-awareness-honesty-self #food

How good it is, when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that this is the dead body of a fish, this the dead body of a bird or pig. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#dead-body #eating #food #meat #mindfulness