The Only Thing That Is Real Is

When A Man Has Fulfilled All Four Of These Requisites-to Be Wide Awake, To Have Fear, Respect, And Absolute Assurance-there Are No Mistakes For Which He Will Have To Account; Under Such Conditions His Actions Lose The Blundering Quality Of The Acts Of A Fool. If Such A Man Fails, Or Suffers A Defeat, He Will Have Lost Only A Battle, And There Will Be No Pitiful Regrets Over That.

To Ask Me To Verify My Life By Giving You My Statistics Is Like Using Science To Validate Sorcery. It Robs The World Of Its Magic And Makes Milestones Out Of Us All.

Our Normal Expectations About Reality Are Created By A Social Consensus. We Are Taught How To See And Understand The World. The Trick Of Socialization Is To Convince Us That The Descriptions We Agree Upon Define The Limits Of The Real World. What We Call Reality Is Only One Way Of Seeing The World, A Way That Is Supported By Social Consensus.

Our Senses Perceive The Way They Do Because A Specific Feature Of Our Awareness Forces Them To Do So...because We Learn What To Perceive.

We Hardly Ever Realize That We Can Cut Anything Out Of Our Lives, Anytime, In The Blink Of An Eye.