The Story You Tell Yourself about the World
"It’s easier to live in the story you tell yourself about the world rather than the world itself."
~ Nate Staniforth
We're All Hallucinating All the Time
"We're all hallucinating all the time, including right now. It's just that when we agree about our hallucinations, we call that reality."
~ Anil Seth
The Hidden Discipline of Familiarity
"Half of what’s about to occur is unknown, both inside you and outside you."
~ David Whyte
Real Things
"The idea that reality is not real or what you sense and feel is not authentic is something I’m very skeptical of."
~ Bill Nye
What If There's More to Life than Just Pleasure?
"Is there inherent value in real experiences, whether pleasurable or painful? Do you yourself have more value when you're experiencing real life's pleasures and pains?"
Fictional Reality
What is amazing is that as history unfolded, fictional reality became more and more powerful so that today, the most powerful forces in the world are these fictional entities."
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Think Differently with Gratitude
"Gratitude encounters interruptions as invitations, deepens and expands horizons for re-envisioning reality, and cultivates depth perception for how we see other people."
~ Laura Russell
Without Being Completely Swallowed Up
"The world is an illusion, but it is an illusion which we must take seriously, because it is real as far as it goes, and in those aspects of the reality which we are capable of apprehending. Our business is to wake up." ~ Aldous Huxley
The Idea of the Taste
"A man finds
a melon by the road and continues up
the hill thinking it is the warm melon
that will remain after he has forgotten
the ruins and sea of the summer. He tells
himself this even as the idea of the taste
is replacing what the melon tasted like."
~ Jack Gilbert
Want Never Goes Away
"The problem isn't that you are a bad manager of your time, you are a bad tactician in the war inside your brain."
~ David McRaney