1,601 Quotes About Perception

The simplest thing one can say about the experiential knowledge of awakening is that it is a shift in one's perception. This is the heart of awakening. There is a shift in perception from seeing oneself as an isolated individual to seeing oneself, if we have a sense of self at all after this shift, as something mush more universal—everything and everyone and everywhere at the same time.

I don't think spirits tell time," Bram said, stomping across the moss and into the cool air beneath the trees. "It's all a hoax, what they say about midnight and the witching hour. Ghosts are either here or they're not. People just pay more attention in the dark.

La mayoría de los tomadores de mescalina experimentan únicamente la parte celestial de la esquizofrenia

It is the function of sensuality to renew our perception.

Is Celie actually ugly?Asks the charismatic star playing heron Broadway.How many times over the yearsI have explainedthis.Celie and her “prettier” sister Nettieare practically identical.They might be twins.But Life has forced on Celieall the hardshipsNettie mostly avoids....Endless labor that woulddemean and soon obliteratethe observable lovelinessof the most queenly slave.I wanted us to think abouthow superficial is our understandingof beauty; but, also, how beautyis destroyed.

This morning as I walked for the train I saw a dying bird on the road — something about the way it flailed blindly on the path made me feel sick. Then I realised it was just a clump of wet leaves blowing about, but it was a while before the nausea passed — and it struck me that if my body had responded as if it had been the bird, was my perception of it really false, even if it had only been the leaves?

In someone else's belief, you are rich and free.In someone else's eyes you are smart, capable and daring.In someone else's world of existence you have it all.In someone else's level of experience you have already reached their understanding of nirvana.Whatever your story is, you are as blessed as you are willing to recognize you are.

The philosophy of a critic or historian can be described not only in terms of what he perceives, but also in terms of what he fails to see.

If there's one thing I've learned from all of this ... it's that no one, none of us, is ever really who we think we are. We tell ourselves lies to feel better, but they're just lies. The truth is a lot harder to look at. But the trick is, you can't let it crush you. You either accept who you are, or you change it.