These quotations on reality are chosen by the editors of FourthWayToday.org.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. – Plutarch

Higher centers interact with reality; they generate reality. – Dorian Matei

There are some people who live in a dream world; there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. – Desiderius Erasmus

The real one, the one with no rank, is always present, not even a hair’s breadth away. – Linjii

 That which is unreal has no existence; the real can never pass away. – Bhagavad Gita

Reality is Eternal, Nameless Nothingness. – Meister Eckhart

Indeed the whole world is imagination, while God alone is the real Reality. – Shah Nimatullah

This truly is the essence of Brahman and this is the sober reality. The material world is insubstantial and, when seen truly, appears as a hollow phantom. – Yogavasishtha

Quotations on Reality from Fourth Way Authors

Life is Real only then, when “I am”. – George Gurdjieff

I already knew then as an undoubted fact that beyond the thin film of false reality there existed another reality from which, for some reason, something separated us. The “miraculous” was a penetration into this unknown reality. – P.D. Ouspensky

Reality is continuous and constant. But in order to be able to perceive it, we must break it up into separate moments. [We must] represent it to ourselves as an endless series of separate moments, out of which one and one only exists for us. In other words, we perceive reality as though through a narrow slit. What we see through this slit, we call the present. – P.D. Ouspensky

At moments of very intense experience, great joy or great suffering, everything happening around seems to a man unreal, a dream. This is the beginning of the awakening of the soul. When a man begins to be aware, in a dream, that he is asleep and that what he sees is a dream, he awakes. In the same way, a soul, when it begins to realize that all visible life is but a dream, approaches awakening. And the stronger, the more vivid the experiences of a man, the quicker may come the moment of consciousness of the unreality of life. – P.D. Ouspensky

For earlier issues relating to the topic of reality, see https://fourthwaytoday.org/category/real-and-the-unreal/ and https://fourthwaytoday.org/category/real-world/.