#reality

And it's a disquieting thought that not even the past is done with, even that continues to change, as if in reality there is only one time, for everything, one time for every purpose under heaven. One single second, one single landscape, in which what happens activates and deactivates what has already happened in endless chain reactions, like the processes that take place in the brain, perhaps, where cells suddenly bloom and die away, all according to the way the winds of consciousness are blowing. ↗

— Karl Ove Knausgård

#consciousness #mind #moment #reality #time

The only thing set in stone are dumb quotes and names of dead people. Everything else is subject to change. ↗

— Kimberly Spencer

#humor #reality #wisdom #change

You can't change reality -- only its perception. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#reality #change

Alone everything changes. Some might call it distorted reality but it's exactly the place I need to be. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#change

We live in an incredibly dynamic universe that gives us what we wish for, like a waking dream ↗

— Cynthia Sue Larson

#lucidity #manifestation #mindfulness #reality #change

But it wasn't till he'd been there nearly two weeks that one morning Paris and its people suddenly became more than a background for his vacation. He was sitting in a café, out on the walk, having a tiny cup of Paris-tasting, Paris-smelling coffee, watching traffic stream by, pleased as always with the countless people on bikes expertly threading their way between and around the cars and buses and trucks. Then a traffic light changed, the stream stopped and waited, and a man on a bike, one foot on the pavement, lifted his arm and wiped his forehead with the back of his hand. And he turned real. In that instant he was no longer a quaint part of a charming background; he turned into a real man, tired from pumping that bike, and for the first time it occurred to my friend that there was a reason so many people picturesquely rode bikes through the heavy traffic, and the reason was to save bus fare and because they couldn't afford cars. After that, for the few days that were left to him there, my friend continued to enjoy Paris. But now it was no longer an immense travel poster but a real city, because now so were its people. ↗

— Jack Finney

#people #reality #travel #change

Changes is the mother of time. Absence of changes makes no time. ↗

— Toba Beta

#perceive #reality #relativity #subjectivity #time

Fancies were all very well for a change, but must be only occasional guests in a world devoted to reality. ↗

— Walter de La Mare

#reality #change

You are the unchanging manifesting as the changefulness ↗

— Mooji

#peace #reality #self-realization #spiritualty #change

Should she stick with the nice, sensitive guy who treats her well (Ben Stiller), or should she roll the dice with the frustrating boho bozo who treats her like crap (Ethan Hawk)? Winona made the kind of romantic decision most people my age would have made in 1994: She pursued a path that was difficult and depressing, and she did so because it showed the slightest potential for transcendence. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#age