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Or was it, as everyone told her, and as she must believe, all in her head? And so what if it was – wasn’t everything in her head real too? What if there was no demonstrable reality? What if there was nothing beyond the mind?

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Reality is only as true as it is perceived. Reality does not change. How it is perceived does.

perception, reality

Russell Eric Dobda

Reality is constructed by our perception, and it does not actually exist without it.

perception, reality

Different minds perceive different things, but all are imprisoned, asleep in a paradigm of material reality. Awakened minds bearing a more malleable paradigm, such as those of mages, can bend its rules, but never truly break them. To cross that boundary is to become something more and less human. A god, but absent the restraint.

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Different creatures have different eyes. Human eyes (unlike, say, a cat’s eyes, or an octopus’s) are only made to see one version of reality at a time.

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Some are imprisoned by their own perception of reality.

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We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.

perception, reality

We accept the reality of the world in which we are presented.

perception, reality

Mostly you are what they think you are.

perception, reality

The world’ is man’s experience as it appears to, and is moulded by, his ego. It is that less abundant life, which is lived according to the dictates of the insulated self. It is nature denatured by the distorting spectacles of our appetites and revulsions. It is the finite divorced from the Eternal. It is multiplicity in isolation from its non-dual Ground. It is time apprehended as one damned thing after another. It is a system of verbal categories taking the place of the fathomlessly beautiful and mysterious particulars which constitute reality. It is a notion labelled ‘God’. It is the Universe equated with the words of our utilitarian vocabulary.

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Charise Mericle Harper

Sometimes when you’re upset it’s so easy to forget what’s real and go for what makes you feel better. (131)

perception, reality

Haruki Murakami

It’s just that you’re about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to you than they did before. But don’t let appearances fool you. There’s always only one reality.

perception, reality