Just the facts.

An excerpt from The Art of Possibility - The Way Things Are:

The practice of "the way things are" is a reality check on the runaway imagination of the "calculating self". It’s like the world-weary policeman saying, “Just the facts, Ma’am, just the facts.”

Radiating possibility begins with things as they are and highlights open spaces, the pathways leading out from here. Then the obstacles are simply present conditions—they are merely what has happened or is happening.