"...what one commonly takes as 'the reality,' including the reality of one's own individual person, by no means signifies something fixed, but rather something that is ambiguous-that there is not only one, but that there are many realities, each comprising also a different consciousness of the ego."

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Source : "LSD: My Problem Child". Book by Albert Hofmann. Chaoter 11: "LSD Experience and Reality", www.psychedelic-library.org. 1980.

Albert Hofmann

#Mean Quotes #Reality Quotes #Ego Quotes

“I believe email-based status reports are the clearest and best signs of managerial incompetence and laziness.”
“People in Indonesia are scared of being assaulted, insulted, robbed or raped. Again, it is because they are unprotected. Police and even the legal system are corrupt or/and on the side of the rich. Victims see no justice. How could you not be scared in almost total lawlessness?”
“I have terrible panic attacks. I usually get so tired from crying and being in pain that my only way out is sleeping.”
“The difficulties of economics are mainly the difficulties of conceiving clearly and fully the conditions of utility.”

Source : William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“You can return all the Christmas gifts you want, but you will never get back the time spent with your relatives.”
“Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.”

Source : Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.438, Penguin
“Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping - rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year's and Easter and Christmas - But, goodness, why need they do it?”
“I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.”

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