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1 " ... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind is not to rationalize subjective preferences, but to recognize objective reality and to help the heart revel in God. "
― John Piper , The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God
2 " In Advaita Vedanta, and in many other ancient wisdom traditions, the world is said to be an illusion. This illusion is commonly referred to as maya, a Sanskrit name which refers to the apparent, or objective reality which is superimposed on the ultimate reality in order to generate the phenomena of what we call the material world. Maya is the magic by which we create duality—by which we create two worlds from one. This creation is an illusory creation—it is not real—it is an imaginary manifestation of the one Universal Consciousness, appearing as all of the various phenomena in objective reality. Maya is God’s, or Consciousness’s, creative power of emptying or reflecting itself into all things and thus creating all things—the power of subjectivity to take on objective appearance. "
― Joseph P. Kauffman , The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
3 " Subject and object are not separate—so-called objective reality is projected by our subjective Consciousness. "
4 " Sufis (the name for the realised individual, not the learner or follower) are reunited with objective Reality and Unity. "
― Idries Shah , Sufi Thought and Action
5 " In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether these exist or not. By doing certain things certain results will follow; students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophic validity to any of them. "
― Aleister Crowley , Magick in Theory and Practice
6 " Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic, common sense, resilience, technology, and, if need be, racism and imperialism. "
― Carlos Fuentes , Myself with Others: Selected Essays
7 " That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh). "
― Idries Shah
8 " Attempting to express a person’s objective reality and subjective state of mind with the written word is an endless task because writing alters our perception of reality and amends our mental equilibrium. "
― , Dead Toad Scrolls
9 " Writing about personal thoughts and observations, subjective feelings and objective reality is a gateway experience that intensifies a person’s level of consciousness. Every degree of increased consciousness can lead to increased knowledge of the world and self-understanding. "
10 " ...there is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it doesn't - it needs us to be ... "
― , A Familiar Rain
11 " Quite aside from supernatural experiences, after having given this much thought and extensive consideration, I am quite certain that it is Christianity that is based in Objective Reality and Truth and is therefore validpp "
― R. Alan Woods , The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal
