#ty

In the ultimate stillness Light penetrates the whole realm; In the still illumination, There pervades pure emptiness. When I look back on the Phenomenal world, Everything is just Like a dream. ↗

— Han-shan Te-Ch'ing

#perception #reality #silence #world #dreams

All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#life #reality #dreams

My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe. ↗

— Barack Obama

#dreams

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#communicating #dreaming #empty #even #her

And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat. Or a Republican. Nor an American. I speak as a victim of America's so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy - all we've seen is hypocrisy. When we open our eyes today and look around America, we see America not through the eyes of someone who has enjoyed the fruits of Americanism. We see America through the eyes of someone who has been the victim of Americanism. We don't see any American dream. We've experienced only the American nightmare. ↗

— Malcolm X

#deception #democracy #hypocrisy #liberty #oppression

There are going to be times when you learn more about the world you’re entering and feel defeated when you see the gap between the ideal and the reality… But that’s something we’ll all face. The people that face those obstacles and overcome them are people whose dreams come true. ↗

— Tsugumi Ohba

#bakuman #dreams #reality #success #support

I'm gonna party, see how intoxicated I can get and how many rules I can flaunt. That's my motto. ↗

— H.G. Bissinger

#party #dreams

The price is certainly high for people who don’t know Christ and who live in a world where Christians shrink back from self-denying faith and settle into self-indulging faith. While Christians choose to spend their lives fulfilling the American dream instead of giving their lives to proclaiming the kingdom of God, literally billions in need of the Gospel remain in the dark ↗

— David Platt

#the-gospel #dreams

She wished, as almost all kids wish at one point or another, that she could turn into a pterodactyl and fly away and never come back. ↗

— Gina Damico

#humor #pterodactyls #dreams

That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#dreams