Table of Contents for Root Meanings
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Revision: 18 Jun 2026
Reality
- Isness.
- Only reality is. Unreality is simply confusion about reality. Even in confusion, only is.
- Experiences of reality can only be loving. What is unloving is unreal.
- Apex reality is awakeness as such, as the context prior to and beyond the content of awareness AND the content of awakened awareness.
- That which is the case.
- What actually exists.
- What actually is.
- Reality is indivisible.
- Reality is most fundamental.
- Reality is nonconceptualizable.
- Reality is nondual.
- Reality is unicity.
- Reality is what is in the absence of any belief in separation.
- Reality is all that is in the absence of any delusion or ignorance.
- Reality is all that is even when there is delusion and ignorance.
- Reality includes actuality and potentiality. Reality includes all that is expressed and all that can ever be expressed as one.
- Reality is what is, and is not what is not.
- Reality includes what appears to be when appearances are an outpicturing of the knowing of Truth.
- Reality does not include what appears to be when appearances are an outpicturing of a false idea, such as separation.
- The appearance of conflict, which follows from beliefs in division and separation, is not reality.
- The delusion of separation is not reality. All that seems to follow from such a belief is not reality.
- Although appearances that outpicture the belief in separation are not reality, reality is always present in such appearances. The reality is revealed as confusion is released.
- Belief in separation from Divinity/God/Source leads to the delusory experience of being ejected from reality, i.e., the fall or banishment from paradise. Such a fall or banishment is unreal.
- Belief in any form of separation, division, or partition conjures the experience of unreality, which is an experience of finiteness and limitedness.
- Reality is infinite. As finitude and limitation depend on the belief in the idea of separation, they are unreal.
- Reality is, unreality is not. There is not even not. Thus unreality is said to be a dream.
- Reality is not objective. The knower of reality is reality. The distance required for there to seem to be objectivity is impossible. Objectivity is part of the impossible dream.
- That which is known in profound clarity is reality.
- That which is known in Supreme Clarity is Supreme Reality.
- Supreme Reality is THE SUPREME.
- Supreme Reality is all that is supreme.
- Supreme Reality is identical to Supreme Awakeness/Enlightenment/Realization, Supreme Awareness, Supreme Power, etc.
- In Supreme Reality, it is obvious that there is only THE SUPREME.
- In Supreme Reality, it is obvious that the only reality is Supreme Reality.
- Supreme Reality is THE SUPREME knowing THE SUPREME.
Sayings:
- “All that is and all that can be is naked reality.”
- “The question is not whether something is real. The question is whether we know what something really is. Then we can be in real relationship with it. When the relationship is real, even what comes and goes, even transient phenomena, even illusions support reality and are reality.”
- “To know the nature of reality, one must be reality. Fortunately, there is only reality and one can only be reality.”
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