Source: Bonds That Make Us Free: Healing Our Relationships, Coming to Ourselves
“Reality includes creating every real connection and reference.”
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (1979)
“I love the fact that the present is the only real reality we have.”
Blackbookmag interview http://www.blackbookmag.com/movies/paz-de-la-huerta-bares-all-1.28620
Source: A Scanner Darkly (1977), Chapter 13 (p. 213)
“Reality, at first glance, is a simple thing: the television speaking to you now is real.”
What Is Reality?
Context: Reality, at first glance, is a simple thing: the television speaking to you now is real. Your body sunk into that chair in the approach to midnight, a clock ticking at the threshold of awareness. All the endless detail of a solid and material world surrounding you. These things exist. They can be measured with a yardstick, a voltammeter, a weighing scale. These things are real.
As translated at Gallery of Russian Thinkers … selected by Dmitry Olshansky (2005)<!-- by Richard Schain --> http://www.isfp.co.uk/russian_thinkers/nikolay_berdyaev.html
Dream and Reality (1949)
Context: There is no objective reality. But there is only an illusion of consciousness, there is only an objectivication of reality, which was created by the spirit. The origin of life is creativity, freedom; and the personality, subject, and spirit are the representatives of that origin, but not the nature, not the object.
“Only when your intent and actions are in alignment can you create the reality you desire.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 135
