#reality

Can't look at the damage that's been done, it's not healthy. Have to look ahead of it. Can't change what I've done, only what I'm gonna do. ↗

— Jordan Ghere

#hope #inspirational #life #living #pain

The average Bhutanese knows much more about the world than the average American...(for Americans)It is more comfortable to watch fake news about celebrities than to know what's happening in China or southern Sudan. But events happening in China or Sudan affect us so much more because they are real. ↗

— Linda Leaming

#reality #world-view #inspirational

But there is another way of using the equivalence, which is almost the opposite of allegory, and which I would call sacramentalism or symbolism. If our passions, being immaterial, can be copied by material inventions, then it is possible that our material world in its turn is the copy of an invisible world. As the god Amor and his figurative garden are to the actual passions of men, so perhaps we ourselves and our 'real' world are to something else. The attempt to read that something else through its sensible imitations, to see the archetype in the copy, is what I mean by symbolism or sacramentalism. It is, in fine, 'the philosophy of Hermes that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein, as a portrait, things are not truly but in equivocal shapes, as they counterfeit some real substance in that visible fabrick'. The difference between the two can hardly be exaggerated. The allegorist leaves the given -- his own passions -- to talk of that which is confessedly less real, which is a fiction. The symbolist leaves the given to find that which is more real. To put the difference in another way, for the symbolist it is we who are the allegory. We are the 'frigid personifications'; the heavens above us are the 'shadowy abstractions'; the world which we mistake for reality is the flat outline of that which elsewhere veritably is in all the round of its unimaginable dimensions. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#reality #love

We co-create our reality with others in unseen ways. ↗

— Doug Dillon

#creation #inspiration #philosophy #reality #unseen

Who are you? No really. Way, way down deep. Who are you? ↗

— Doug Dillon

#inspiration #philosophy #reality #spirituality #inspirational

Always keep in mind its not about how high you can jump, its landing on level ground that matters! ↗

— Victoria Addino

#achievement #inspirational-life #motivation #reality #successful-living

Happiness has to do with your mindset, not with outside circumstance. ↗