Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.
Idries ShahTag: wisdom life inspirational truth reality dramatic sufism sufis
He asked me if I ever prayed-- and I lied.
Then he asked me if I ever got an answer, or a sign that my prayer was heard-- and I told him the truth.
"Yeah... me neither."
His hands sounded like leather as he slowly rubbed some warmth into his knotted knuckles.
"So what happens to all of those lost prayers?"
I didn't know if I should tell him the truth of what I really believed... or not.
I put my hand on his slumping shoulder, smiled and told him the truth of what I believe, "Don't worry...
Tag: reality religion faith prayer
There is a grand union beyond nationalism which serves all people, and which is rooted in what is real, versus what has been created or produced.
Bryant McGillTag: reality nationalism serving-others
You're - psychotic. There's something wrong with you."
"I know," Benteley agreed. "I'm a sick man. And the more I see, the sicker I get. I'm so sick I think everybody else is sick and I'm the only healthy person. That's pretty bad off, isn't it?
I sometimes have moments of such despair, such despair … Because in those moments I start to think that I will never be capable of beginning to live a real life; because I have already begun to think that I have lost all sense of proportion, all sense of the real and the actual; because, what is more, I have cursed myself; because my nights of fantasy are followed by hideous moments of sobering! And all the time one hears the human crowd swirling and thundering around one in the whirlwind of life, one hears, one sees how people live—that they live in reality, that for them life is not something forbidden, that their lives are not scattered for the winds like dreams or visions but are forever in the process of renewal, forever young, and that no two moments in them are ever the same; while how dreary and monotonous to the point of being vulgar is timorous fantasy, the slave of shadow, of the idea...
Fyodor DostoevskyTag: reality time fantasy dream shadow
This world is better than Utopia because - and follow this point carefully - you can never live in Utopia. Utopia is always somewhere else. That's the very definition of Utopia.
Brad WarnerThere's nowhere else to escape to ... Except in a wooden box, that is.
H.M. ForesterIt's amusing to me that we refer to people who live in their heads as detached, disturbed, or mad, when reality for anyone is actually a matter of the individual's state of mind. The mad truth—all people live in their heads. Whatever you think life is, it is.
Richelle E. GoodrichTag: perception reality perspective madness attitude outlook richelle disturbed outlook-in-life richelle-goodrich detached perception-of-reality
The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.
Shannon L. AlderTag: truth love reality acceptance family obvious religion faith sorrow unrequited-love actions common-sense evidence beliefs confusion disbelief proof timing outrage life-purpose hoping mixed-signals
Assholes are like weeds, a bitch to get rid of and when you do another one grows back in its place.
Jonathan KellermanTag: reality wisdom-in-fiction
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