#reality

It was vision that dulled trust. It was vision that uplifted trust. Let them see how. ↗

— Ray McFarland

#freedom #reality #change

Despite the variety and the differences, and however much we proclaim the contrary, what the media produce is neither spontaneous nor completely “free:” “news” does not just happen, pictures and ideas do not merely spring from reality into our eyes and minds, truth is not directly available, we do not have unrestrained variety at our disposal. For like all modes of communication, television, radio, and newspapers observe certain rules and conventions to get things across intelligibly, and it is these, often more than the reality being conveyed, that shape the material delivered by the media. ↗

— Edward W. Said

#lies #media #news #reality #communication

Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at large. In many cases they have faithfully recorded the Sufis' own reiteration that the Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning. ↗

— Idries Shah

#love #reality #sufis #sufism #truth

In the game of life, we all receive a set of variables and limitations in the field of play. We can either focus on the lack thereof or empower ourselves to create better realities with the pieces we play the game with. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#effort #empowerment #focus #games #life

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#reality

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#based #classic #could #economic #economic theory

What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual. ↗

— Keith Miller

#happens #people #reality #religious #spiritual

The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#reality #beauty

That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn’t match reality. ↗

— Stefanos Livos

#imagination #literature #reality #stories #teach

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#existance #reality #art