Yet there has always been this essential difference between them, that while the Buddhist regards the senses as windows looking out upon
unreality and mirage, to the Taoist they are doors through which the freed soul rushes to mingle with the colours and tones and contours of the universe.
Images cannot be defined by the FEELING of
unreality, because when we falsely believe an image to be a sensation, as in the case of dreams, it FEELS just as real as if it were a sensation.
In this crowning
unreality, where all the streets were paved with water, and where the deathlike stillness of the days and nights was broken by no sound but the softened ringing of church-bells, the rippling of the current, and the cry of the gondoliers turning the corners of the flowing streets, Little Dorrit, quite lost by her task being done, sat down to muse.
Let us hope that our theory is correct, and that their shafts are powerless against minds cognizant of their
unreality. Otherwise we are doomed.
There was
unreality in everything about him--in the valley itself, lying hidden and forgotten in what was supposed to be an arid waste.
Her only experiences in such matters were of the books, where the facts of ordinary day were translated by fancy into a fairy realm of
unreality; and she little knew that this rough sailor was creeping into her heart and storing there pent forces that would some day burst forth and surge through her in waves of fire.
His face was impassive as ever, and the strange
unreality of the man struck me afresh.
Topics such as teaching, reality television, race, and mapping all wend their way through the essays, offering ties from dystopian
unreality to modern life.
A sense of
unreality has become embedded across successive governments, where real prices of utilities such as gas and electricity have been masked by ever-more crippling subsidies.
Cloth, $140.00--John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart's infamous argument for the
unreality of time (or McTaggart's paradox) has left an enduring impression on the philosophy of time.
"Nowhere is this contradiction more apparent than in the alarming
unreality of some of the government's numbers, specially a 3.5 per cent fiscal deficit, when it is very clear from the budget that there will be unplanned expenses and unrealised revenue," he said.
Symptoms can include intense fear and anxiety and a sensation of
unreality. Physical symptoms such as uncontrollable shaking, sweating, palpitations, rapid breathing, feeling sick and dizzy are also common.
