I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the dreamer will wake, and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be.
The real problem with stories – if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.
In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing said in that language can be a lie. It is the most basic building brick of everything.
I’ve known from long ago that the universe was calling me. If you were one of those annoying adults that said, ‘Oh, what are you gonna be when you grow up?’ I would say, ‘Astrophysicist .’ And then they’d walk away real quickly.
While I’m a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it’s the real universe that calls to me. To fall into a black hole, that is more amazing than anything I’ve ever read in a science-fiction story.
I never got into ‘Star Wars.’ Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all.
An organisation can only carry out its mandate if there is discipline, and where there is no discipline there can be no real progress.
A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before.
I believe that in the end that it is kindness and accommodation that are all the catalysts for real change.
The real meaning of the spoken word has to be demonstrated by practical deeds.
Root out the violence in your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully. Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others is possible.
Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.
Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.
Real peace is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep inner peace.
If we are not peaceful, if we are not feeling well in our skin, we cannot demonstrate real peace, and we cannot raise our children well either.
Freedom is the real foundation of happiness.
There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching.
There is no real separation between self or no-self. Anything you do for yourself you do for the society at the same time. And anything you do for society you do for yourself also.
We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.
While I find inspiration in real life, the actual stories are, thankfully, works of fiction – which, given the considerable turmoil in my character’s lives, is probably a good thing!