Perception Quotes - Page 3

Why does truth carry such a dreadful face? Why does subjugation carry such a happy mask? It becomes sad when people understand that they can lead a better life as long as they bow their heads, ignoring the truth.

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you’re going to regret it.

The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating.

Don't be cool. Like everything.

all appears to change when we change

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

It's not strength, it's PERCEPTION that makes you stronger. If you change how you SEE it, you'll change how you FEEL about it.

Be like the flower, content with its nature.

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

A day is a day. It’s just a measurement of time. Whether it’s a good day or a bad day is up to you. It’s all a matter of perception.

Pain, unless it is physical, was sold to you (by your culture).

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

I mean that the reason God seems to act in ways that make no sense to us is that our perceptions are wrong. Our expectations are subtly twisted. We long for things that harm us and run from the things that grow and heal us. We think good is bad and bad is good. God acts rightly, but to us, it seems confusing. Or sometimes plain wrong.

World with various situations has various relations,don't give conclusions with your perception.

The master said You must write what you see.
But what I see does not move me.
The master answered Change what you see.

In pale moonlight / the wisteria's scent / comes from far away.

The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can [...] be closed with a shout of recognition.

While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation of knowledge. Understanding cannot be realized by listening or reading about the realization of others. It must be achieved firsthand via substantive, direct perception in the moment.