Quotes about Reality

It's better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.

Acceptance says, True, this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me.

I don't want to say that in a place that's negative about what the fear is. I just want to be a realist.

Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.

Life, the way it really is, is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

If there is sin against life, it consists¦ in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Can we apply this expression to our own belief in the reality of God in our lives and our world? As

My dear, you will be woefully disappointed if in my story you expect any thing like a novel. I once heard a general say, that nothing was less like a review than a battle; and I can tell you that nothing is more unlike a novel than real life. Of all lives, mine has been the least romantic.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.