Best 1811 quotes in «perception quotes» category

Though people are laughing at the dirt surrounding you, they are missing to see the seeds also planted, growing silently within.

Thoughts have the power, To change how you perceive the world around you, To inflict worry, or make peace abound too.

Through mastering the means of perception, the promise of who you are in physical form is opened with an increasing opportunity for fulfilment.

Through our awareness, we can open the inheritance of our qualities or talents, and behind that, reside in the stillness of being, present in the sanctity of universal love.

Time is a curious dimension - habit of the preconceived notion can easily reverse the hand of a clock, and yet the clock is still in perfect working order.

Time is basically an illusion created by the mind to aid in our sense of temporal presence in the vast ocean of space. Without the neurons to create a virtual perception of the past and the future based on all our experiences, there is no actual existence of the past and the future. All that there is, is the present.

To analyze or assess a person's failings or deficiencies,' he declared to himself, 'is useless, not because such blemishes are immovable, but because they affect the mass of beholders in diverse ways. Different minds perceive utterly variant figures in the same being.

To be intuitive is to possess a godly characteristic: to be bad at second-guessing the good.

To Declare Your Stand For Righteousness Is Not To Regard The Perception Of Others

To embellish reality with makeup, with silk and royal purple, isn’t that what we all should be doing? Beneath the life we live every day the silk and the purple are hiding, waiting for us. A person just has to dare to throw off his everyday clothes, to rip them off and to put on the silk and purple that exist, I know it. But we’re the ones who cover them up. Out of boredom, indifference, fear. Mostly fear. So right from the first moment I met you, my lies were always the truth: in telling them I unveiled the world for you — the hidden world, the true world. You were really the one who lied. You wanted everything to remain untouched, paradise to be paradise, and me angel. But you made a fatal mistake: you never believed me. You never understood why I lied, that through my lies I was giving you a unique gift: the truth. You always tried to control me — out of love, of course. But is there any word more ambiguous than the word “love”?

To evade arrogance, remind yourself (from time to time) that your talent or success could have been better. To be thankful, remind yourself (every now and then) that your illness or failure could have been worse.

To live, to truly live, one must consider each and every thing a blessing.

True forgiveness totally alters our perception. It sees the spiritual truth and loses sight of the alternatives. Our ego refuses to do this because its main food is remembering the wrongdoings against us even if they are entirely fabricated. To choose to see a different reality leaves the ego no room. It is the healing space. It is the beautiful space. It is the space of love and happiness.

Truth is individual.” “What? No it’s not. Truth is . . . it’s Truth. Reality.” “Your truth is what you see,” Pattern said, sounding confused. “What else could it be? That is the truth that you spoke to me, the truth that brings power.

Truth is the distance between perception and reality.

Truth is the perception of how things are viewed.

Two blades clashed, ringing like a bell. Like all small boys, Philip thought his father was invincible; and this was the moment when he learned the truth.

Unhelpful perceptions can invade our minds — that sacred place of reason, action and will — and throw off our compass.

Universe is not a calm lake and therefore when you watch a calm lake you get a deceptive idea about the universe and you get a wrong perception of future!

Until you see beauty everywhere, in every face, until then, you are blind.

Utopia is a collective shift of perception away. Abundance is all around us. Only our efforts at tower-building blind us to it, our gaze forever skyward, forever seeking to escape this Earth, this feeling, this moment.

Visual impressions are greatly intensified and the eye recovers some of the perceptual innocence of childhood, when the sensum was not immediately and automatically subordinated to the concept. Interest in space is diminished and interest in time falls almost to zero.

Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle? -Cheryl

Was it wisdom? Was it knowledge? Was it, once more, the deceptiveness of beauty, so that all one's perceptions, half way to truth, were tangled in a golden mesh?

We accept the reality of the world in which we are presented.

We all see only that which we are trained to see.

To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with survival or to a human being obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended directly and unconditionally by Mind at Large-- this is an experience of inestimable value to everyone and especially to the intellectual.

Tobias took the photograph. At least, that's what I saw. Most likely I still had the photograph in my hand, but I couldn't feel it there, now I perceived Tobias holding it. It's strange, the way the mind can change perception.

To deny temporal succession, to deny the self, to deny the astronomical universe, are measures of apparent despair and of secret consolation. Our destiny (in contrast to Swedenborg's hell and the hell of Tibetan mythology) is not frightful because it is unreal; it is frightful because it is irreversible and ironbound. Time is the substance of which I am made. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which mangles me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire. The world, unfortunately, is real; I, unfortunately, am Borges.

Too often, it is only love that makes us engaged enough, alert enough, alive enough to see

To see more than a reflection requires us to filter what we see, to view the world with honest eyes.

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

Toward the end of Carmel's life, the perception of super talls shifted dramatically, thanks largely to televised NBA games, By 1975, pretty much everyone had seen super tall people on TV, in the context of being celebrated in front of sold-out basketball arenas. This new frame of reference could not have been more positive. By 1995 Shaquille O'Neal was known as The Man of Steel, not the Traveling Human Giant. The idea of super tall people as freaks was replaced by the idea of super tall people as amazing athletes.

True inspiration unfolds itself, not by force or it becomes fake. True intuition is also the ability to be observant.

TRUST ADJUST An act that changes perception can elevate or lower integrity

Truth is a broken mirror, but it can still help anyone to see clearly.

Truth is not supernatural, nor does it have any nature, for truth is nature. Perception of nature, is the perception of truth.

Truth, independent of the Self, is irrelevant to the biological existence of human life.

Truth is the desistance between perception and reality.

Truth is universal. Perception of truth varies.

Two people can illustrate crudity to you. The first is the crude man, whom you see perceiving the diamond as a stone. The other is the refined man, who makes clear to you the crudity of the first one.

Unfortunately, our minds are our greatest assets, and our biggest flaws.

Was Father getting sadder, or was she just getting old enough to see it?

We all live in our own dream-worlds and make and re-make our own personal realities with tender and loving care.

We are all so happy. If we only could realize it.

We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.

We are master alchemists: We may not have discovered how to make gold out of lead, but we are able to make heaven out of hell, hell out of heaven, and purgatory out of nothing.

We are reflections of people and they can project their reality on us if we are not careful people may see the ugliness from their nature dance across our minds.

We are who people think we are. The reality is irrelevant.

We can always choose not what we see but how we look at what we see.