"There is a genuine payoff in pulling ourselves closer to reality."

-- David Reynolds

"Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything."

-- D. H. Lawrence

"The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

-- Aart van der Leeuw

"I am merely Reality's way of getting certain work done that needed doing."

-- David K. Reynolds

"Everyone is in the best seat."

-- John Cage

"You cannot argue with that little world 'is'."

-- Eckhart Tolle

"Reality is where we are from moment to moment."

-- Robert Linssen

"When we are living in the present moment, we are using our bodies for the purpose they were designed -- to feel the raw, uncontaminated reality of life."

-- Shannon Duncan

"It is hard sometimes to remember that beauty is another word for reality."

-- Robert Penn Warren

"I've learned that my personal pain comes from the difference between what is happening and what I think ought to be happening."

-- Spencer Johnson

"Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality."

-- Joseph Conrad

"Sometimes you have to look reality straight in the eye, and deny it."

-- Garrison Keillor

"So please let us realize that simplicity, austerity, and complete abandonment help one to see reality."

-- Krishnamurti

"... the real is solely what you experience, not what you think."

-- Amaury de Riencourt

"Everything happens for you, not to you."

-- Byron Katie

"The only genuine romance for grown people is reality."

-- Thomas Carlyle

"You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer."

-- Byron Katie

"Not believing your own thoughts, you are free from the primal desire: the thought that reality should be different than it is."

-- Byron Katie

"In any given moment, it's our focus that determines our emotional reality."

-- Marianne Williamson

"Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance that he himself has spun."

-- Clifford Geertz