reality

Turn your head away from the screen, my friend. It will tell you nothing more.

They walked on rather aimlessly. He hoped she wouldn't notice he was touched, because he wouldn't have known how to explain why. Here lay the great discrepancy between aesthetic truth and sleazy reality.

During sex, people are often way too focused on giving or taking to actually just celebrate this moment, be themselves completely, and rejoice in their own realities.

Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolized in the concrete form of a man. In something that gives a focus to all the other things he knows to be real. Something that makes unseen things manifest and allows him to come to his hopes and dreams through his outer eye and through the touch and feel of his natural hand.

If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.

Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.

It__ madness to see life as it is and not how it should be.

The Amorous Shepherd is a fruitless interlude, but those few poems are among the world__ greatest love poems, because they__e love poems about love, not about being poems. The poet loves because he loves, not because love exists.

he woman Caeiro fell in love with. I have no idea who she was, and I intend to never find out, not even out of curiosity. There are things of which the soul refuses to lose its ignorance.I__ perfectly aware no one__ obliged to reciprocate love, and great poets have nothing to do with being great lovers. But there__ a transcendent spite...Let her remain anonymous even to God!

If science wants to be truthful,What science is more truthful than the science of things without science?I close my eyes and the hard earth where I__ lyingHas a reality so real even my back feels it.I don__ need reason _ I have shoulderblades.

Something changed in part of reality _ my knees and my hands.What science has knowledge for this?The blind man goes on his way and I don__ make any more gestures.It__ already not the same time, or the same people, or anything the same.This is being real.

Everything__ different from us. That__ why everything exists.

I__ in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren__, either.Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.If where I want to go is far away, I__ not there in an instant.(6/20/1919)

Your mind can be your enemy or friend. If you always follow your heart, your mind will feel neglected. If you follow only your mind, your heart will never forgive you. Never ignore your conscience, yet always be conscious of reason. Make your heart and mind friends and you will have peace of mind throughout life's seasons.

Smartass Disciple: Please teach me about the truth, master.Master of Stupidity: Hmmm...tell me about your sexperience!

The wheel of life has many spokes yet so few people ever leave the hub.

The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes its truth or falsity.