Pastoral Resources

What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

But I also wanted to give them an intelligent emotional journey, without having to suspend reality - to be able to look at those characters and see reasons for the relationships and why what happens happens.

Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets.

It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.

If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.

I loved the logistical reality of a guy who wants to take over the world, yet who has a family too.

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

My family was my guide to my reality.

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.