#reality

When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning for that paradise that is lost when, as young children, we replace it with words and ideas and abstractions - such as merit, such as past, present, and future - our direct, spontaneous experience of the thing itself, in the beauty and precision of this present moment. ↗

— Peter Matthiessen

#meditation #mind #reality #remorse #thinking

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or who says it. ↗

— Malcom X

#does #face #face reality #matter #patriotism

Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress. ↗

— Lois Wyse

#attractive #becomes #dress #find #green

If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#following #idea #leader #must #reality

They shaved my head, eyebrows. This is not a sci-fi picture. It's not a fantasy picture. You're dealing with something that's supposed to be in reality. But we had a genius makeup artist. ↗

— Rick Yune

#dealing #eyebrows #fantasy #genius #had

It has become fashionable to rail against government intervention in the economy, and the FHA is a favorite example by those trying to show the government's overreach. In reality, the FHA shows how government action during the Great Recession forestalled a much worse economic fate. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#against #become #during #economic #economy

But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#acoustic #acoustic guitar #away #good #guitar

While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#also #complex #composing #fantastic #frank

First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be. ↗

— Peter Nivio Zarlenga

#bring #causes #come #first #genius

Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#always #anything #does #flattering #know