Definition: Reality

Table of Contents for Root Meanings

Revision: 24 Aug 2023

Reality

• Divinity/God/Source.
• That which is the case.
• Allness, all that is.
• Reality is indivisible.
• Reality is unicity.
• Reality includes actuality and potential. Thus reality includes all that is expressed and all that can be expressed.
• Reality is what is, and is not what is not.
• Reality is everything except for the idea of separation, which is not, and its implications, which are not.
• Any semblance of division or separation is not reality.
• Although separation and the illusion of separateness are unreal, there is reality in the confused experience of them since reality is all that is.
• Belief in division or separation leads to the experience of being ejected from reality, i.e., the fall or banishment from paradise.
• Belief in division or separation conjures the experience of unreality, which is the experience of finiteness and separation.
• Reality is, unreality is not. There is not even not. Thus unreality is said to be a dream.
• Reality is infinite. Finitude depends on the idea of separation and is unreal.
• Reality is nonconceptual.
• Reality is nondual.
• Reality is not objective. The knower of reality is reality. The separation required for there to be objectivity is impossible. Objectivity is part of the impossible dream.
• That which is known in clarity is reality.
• That which is known in perfect clarity, beyond perception, is profound reality.
• Supreme Reality is THE SUPREME.
• Supreme Reality is all that is supreme, including Supreme Awakeness/Enlightenment, Supreme Awareness, the Supreme I, the Supreme YOU, and Supreme Divinity/God/Source.
• In Supreme Reality there is only THE SUPREME.
• Supreme Reality is THE SUPREME knowing THE SUPREME.

Sayings:

• “To know the nature of reality, one must be reality.”