Ideal Vs Reality Quotes

Truth is an ideal we aspire to. Fact is an agreement on the general consensus of what truth is. Honesty is a personal truth shared.

Fantasizing about an impossibly idealized kind of love they’d seen an actor perform on-screen. Yet, all their real-world efforts were extremely pragmatic, often sacrificing the love they fantasized about as a price for earning status, security, and financial freedom.

Reality is always separate from the ideal; but in Trinidad this fantasy is a form of masochism and is infinitely more cheating than the fantasy which makes the poor delight in films about rich or makes the English singer use and American accent.

Europe became what America was supposed to be. All of America's failed capitalist ideals are a reality in today's "socialist" Europe.

tips. Yet at its most ideal, the worth of the genre lies in exploring the tensions of our interior journey vs. our exterior itinerary, in examining our expectations (and hopes and biases) of a destination vs. the reality of what we found, and in measuring the person we are at home vs. the person we become abroad.

If there are certain moments when I question the value of travel writing, I also know that it's important for the traveler to eventually return to where he or she came from, to write and try to capture the experience of being an outsider in an unfamiliar place. Yes, much of travel writing is soulless and transactional, listicles and charticles and "if you go" tips. Yet as its most ideal, the worth of the genre lies in exploring the tensions of our interior journey vs. our exterior itinerary, in examining our expectations (and hopes and biases) of a destination vs. the reality of of what we found, and in measuring the person we are at home vs. the person we become abroad.

The remaining challenge is to realize our higher or true nature in the midst of daily life. This is the ideal of “spontaneous ecstasy” (sahaja-samādhi), which is stable and permanent. This sublime condition of enlightenment is the same as “living liberation,” about which Shankara says in his Viveka-Cudāmani (vs. 438): He who never has the thought of “I” with regard to the body and the senses and the thought of “this” in respect of something different to the “That” [i.e., Reality] is regarded as a [being] who is liberated in life (jīvan-mukta).