*REAL/*REALITY - Also see *REALIZE, ESSENCE, TRUTH, UNITY, HARMONY, NOT-TWO, COMPLETE, WHOLE, ONE, TAO, YIN-YANG, BOTH, INTERDEPENDENT, CONSCIOUS, GOD, DIVINE, HEAVEN, TRANSCENDENCE, ILLUMINATION, ENLIGHTENMENT, ABSOLUTE
Antonyms: ILLUSION, DUALITY, SEPARATE, SPLIT, SIN, HELL, CHOAS, MYSTERY
The 5 stages of mystic conscioussness are: 1. awakening or conversion, 2. self-knowledge or purgation, 3. illumination (or enlightenment, presence, transcendence, reality) 4. surrender (or dark night), 5. union (p203) Reality may be apprehended in either transcendent or immanent, positive or negative terms. It is both near and far. (p301) (Mysticism by Underhill)
In reality, however, there is no duality. There is only an all-pervasive Oneness. There is no day and night, since the sun never sets. There is no beginning and no end, no birth and no death. It is only in the stillness of deep silence that thoughts are not active, they get dissolved. Those are the moments when body and mind are one and duality is absent. The silence of meditation or yoga dissolves the senses and the mind transcends to a higher level of consciousness. There emerges immense energy and compassion - the moment of creativity when you become one with nature. (http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Peace_of_Mind/id/219781)
Reality is a oneness which transcends distiction, differences, and change, a condition that is outside space and time, and beyond comprehension as we know it - heaven, and it is this condition that we truly are. Our goal is to wake up, to realize who we really are, to unloose our attachments to this world and awaken into unlimited bliss. (p5-6) The purose of ACIM is to educate us in the choice between the spiritual reality of love and oneness and the worldly illusion of attach and separateness. (p9) (ACIM Intro)
Ultimate Reality is transpersonal and beyond the concept of God. In contemplation we strive for the consciousness that Christ had. (Meaning, p6)
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.' (John 3:6) Due to the soul's association with the mind, it has forgotten its divine origin. IF MAN BUT KNEW HIS REAL SELF, THE SOUL, he would find that in its own sphere of action, and when freed of the mind, it
has tremendous power. (Yoga, p75)
John 1:14 "full of grace and truth" often signifies "divine reality revealed." (p128) Divine reality is different from the reality in which man first finds himself and by which he is controlled. Divine reality discloses itself and is thus revelation. (p138) (Bible Versions)
When once I shall be united to Thee...my life shall be a real life, being wholly full of Thee. (St.Augustine, Wisdom, p266)
Without a life of the spirit our whole existence becomes unsubstantial and illusory. The life of the spirit, by integrating us in the real order established by God, puts us in the fullest possible contact with reality - not as we imagine it, but as it really is. (back cover of No Man is an Island)
There is no word, no concept, no name for what they they experience, because it has no name. All there is is the experience of the primordial power which is the ultimate reality. It is empty and yet the source and origin of all that is. It has no form and yet it gives form to all things. We can call this power "God" but then we have simply attached a name to it. (Contemplation, p65)
To be realists we have to face ourselves as we are, not bemoaning the talents we don't have, nor in some spurt of false humility, denying those we do have. Be realistic enough to recognize God's will for himself and to face it instead of foolishly and unrealistically running off in some other direction to escape. The realist won't let pride or stubbornness make him refuse to accept reasonable answers. The realist lives in the present, takes a risk, is able to laugh at himself, and sees life as a whole. (p104-108) Use energies to achieve reality instead of wasting their time on an imagined heaven on earth. There's no heaven on earth, but a realist is happy in knowing that he's en route to the real one.' (Crucifix, p124)
One is tempted to think that there are two realities - the formless God [spirit] and these confusing mirror images called the universe. There is only wholeness or completeness - beyond night and day, beyond ignorance or knowledge, yet containing both, manifesting both. (Wisdom, Hinduism, p46)
Reality check is weighing yourself on Monday after a partying weekend. (Randy)
*REALIZE/*REALIZATION - also see +*3
God-realization, which is the conscious union of the manifest with the Unmanifest... But the most complete Divine Manifestation is this human reality, this subtle nervous system - a potential expanse of illumination greater than the physical cosmos and greater then the eternal heavenly realms. (Wisdom, Hinduism, p46)