Two Worlds Quotes

“Sometimes I long to forget… It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.”
― Eva Hoffman, Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language

“It seems to me that we do live in two worlds... there is this physical one, which is coherant, and there is the spiritual one, which to the average man with his flashes of religious experience, is very often incoherant. This experience of having two worlds to live in all the time, or not all the time, is a vital one, and is what living is like.”
― William Golding

“I felt like I was living two lives. One in the present and one in the past.”
― A.B. Shepherd, The Beacon

“To make a livelihood, I have to use the American accent so that I can blend well with the clientele. But in my heart, I am still comfortable speaking my accent.”
― Ruchira Khanna, Breathing Two Worlds

“VR addictions take it to a new level. People are found dead everyday in their beds or couches, with their VR helmets still on, their games still running. They die of starvation, thirst, heart attacks. It's a big problem, and zombies—people with severe addictions—are as common as alcoholics or drug addicts these days. Many of them can't function in the real world anymore. They don't go to school or work or go outside. They couldn't even if they wanted to. The way Hakeem's mom explained it to us—in an effort to scare us from ever letting ourselves go that route, I guess—people with severe VR addictions have flipped the real and virtual worlds in their minds. To them, reality is the simulation, and VR is reality.”
― Jessica Khoury, The Ruby Code

“We don’t live in two worlds. We live in one world. We don’t have to code-switch to make it out there. We don’t have to maintain a dual consciousness. People from other cultures don’t have to sacrifice theirs to enter our world, and natives don’t have to sacrifice their cultures to navigate the modern world. We can be exactly who we are—exactly who the creator wanted us to be—and thrive.”
― Anton Treuer, The Cultural Toolbox: Traditional Ojibwe Living in the Modern World

“…there are two worlds: the true glory of Sophia and the false world of the Demiurge. The false world of the Demiurge seems the same as the world of Sophia, except that it is, to use a metaphor, colorless. The world of the Demiurge is the world as it seems to people obsessed with material possessions, attracted by the desire to control the realm of the Goddess Sophia, people who prefer the artificial to the authentic, people in the clutches of delusional poisonous drugs, people with addictions to other people and alcohol, as well as food, spending, pornography, gambling, angry people who are fixated with politics and financial issues; people who are full of illusory worries about possible future events rather than living in the authentic present now, people who see the world through the eyes of the media and people who are completely isolated from themselves emotionally. These people never ‘see’ and never ‘hear’ the real world around and within them. They live in the false duplicate reality of the Earth manufactured by Yaldabaoth.”
― Laurence Galian, Alien Parasites: 40 Gnostic Truths to Defeat the Archon Invasion!

“We live in the world, but we are not of it. Our consciousness cannot have an indecisive foot in both worlds. It must know where we really reside. Make no mistake; one of those worlds will carry our home address and whichever one it is will determine our life. 
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― Donna Goddard, Love's Longing

“If humanity is a hybrid of two worlds, they can either be cross-blessed or cross-tortured by both or both at the same time.”
― Ingmar Veeck