Kami Garcia Quotes

If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?

All beautiful forms of this world are in the process of transformation. Nothing is stable. With every moment, our reality is changing. Mother Ganges, like nature, is constant, but no manifestation of hers remains. Likewise, all that we hold dear in this world is imperceptibly vanishing. We cannot cling to anything. But if we can appreciate the beauty of the underlying current of truth, we can enjoy a reality deeper than the fickle waves of joy and sorrow.

Which country is real, mine or the teacher's? My wish is that we might progressively lose our confidence in what we think we believe and the things we consider stable and secure, in order to remind ourselves of the infinite number of things still waiting to be discovered.

...though nothing is damaged, everything is changed.

The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,-- And that's the skies!

The sun never sets. It is only an appearance due to the observer's limited perspective. And yet, what a sublime illusion it is.

Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.

La ve rite , comme la lumie' re, aveugle. Le mensonge, au contraire, est un beau cre puscule qui met chaque objet en valeur. Truth, like light, blinds. A lie, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight which shows the value of each object.

Illusion never changed into something real.

Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.

Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality.

It's hard keeping everything the same when the same things look and feel so different

In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.

If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you - it will come out of that wall.

We can teach ourselves to see things the way they ARE. Only with vision can we begin to see things the way they CAN BE.

It is still beautiful to hear the heart beat but often the shadow seems more real than the body.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Imagine a mosaic picture of a house in the country: lots of red and blue and yellow and black and brown and white and a dozen different shades of green tiles which make a beautiful picture if you stand back far enough. All the little red squares are true - true things, true places, true feelings. But the red squares aren't the picture. All the rest of it is lies and stories, often within the same sentence.

What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.

We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.

Life is not always what we think it is.

The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.

Now it's clear to me/ that everything you see/ ain't always what it seems.

Trust arises from the mind's instinctive feeling after fixed realities, after the substance of every shadow, the base of all appearance, the everlasting amid change.

Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?