The Bush Administration, And Particularly Bush's Chief Political Strategist And Deputy Chief Of Staff, Karl Rove, Have Been Expert In Both Galvanizing And Mobilizing The Fears And Resentments Of People. A Good Part Of Their Politics Consists Of Being Against Others Who Are Defined In Stereotypical Terms. These Others Don't, In Actual Reality, Exist. The So-called Democratic Elitists, For Example, Are A Stereotype Who They Can Hate. Anyone Who Watches Fox News Or Listens To Rush Limbaugh Knows That This Hatred Of The Other Is At The Core Of Their Politics.
Bill Clinton Was In The Line Of Great Progressive Presidents Who Faced The Realities In His Own Time And Applied Innovative Solutions To Problems.
It's My Belief That Sanity Lies In Realizing That Reality Is Not Exactly What We Had In Mind.
The True Use Of Shakespeare Or Of Cervantes, Of Homer Or Of Dante, Of Chaucer Or Of Rabelais, Is To Augment One's Own Growing Inner Self. . . . The Mind's Dialogue With Itself Is Not Primarily A Social Reality. All That The Western Canon Can Bring One Is The Proper Use Of One's Own Solitude, That Solitude Whose Final Form Is One's Confrontation With One's Own Mortality.
It Is An Occult Law Moreover, That No Man Can Rise Superior To His Individual Failings Without Lifting, Be It Ever So Little, The Whole Body Of Which He Is An Integral Part. In The Same Way No One Can Sin, Nor Suffer The Effects Of Sin, Alone. In Reality, There Is No Such Thing As 'separateness' And The Nearest Approach To That Selfish State Which The Laws Of Life Permit Is In The Intent Or Motive.
Whatever Plane Our Consciousness May Be Acting In, Both We And The Things Belonging To That Plane Are, For The Time Being, Our Only Realities. As We Rise In The Scale Of Development We Perceive That During The Stages Through Which We Have Passed We Mistook Shadows For Realities, And The Upward Progress Of The Ego Is A Series Of Progressive Awakenings, Each Advance Bringing With It The Idea That Now, At Last, We Have Reached "reality"; But Only When We Shall Have Reached The Absolute Consciousness, And Blended Our Own With It, Shall We Be Free From The Delusions Produced By Maya [illusion].
We Don't Live In A World Of Reality, We Live In A World Of Perceptions. No Woman Can Be Well Dressed Unless She Is Comfortable In What She Is Wearing.
The Challenges Presented By Our Budget Crisis Are Some Of The Most Difficult We Have Ever Faced. We Are - Very Simply Put -adjusting To Reality. These Times, And Our Citizens, Demand Change.
Men Are Admitted Into Heaven Not Because They Have Curbed And Governed Their Passions Or Have No Passions, But Because They Have Cultivated Their Understandings. The Treasures Of Heaven Are Not Negations Of Passion, But Realities Of Intellect, From Which All The Passions Emanate Uncurbed In Their Eternal Glory.
The World Of Imagination Is The World Of Eternity. It Is The Divine Bosom Into Which We Shall All Go After The Death Of The Vegetated [i.e. Mortal] Body. This World Of Imagination Is Infinite And Eternal, Whereas The World Of Generation Is Finite And Temporal. There Exist In That Eternal World The Eternal Realities Of Everything Which We See Reflected In This Vegetable Glass Of Nature.
