Perception Quotes - Page 9

The intellect seeks to throw its own interpretation of the real over reality, and in so doing carves the world up into artificial little cubes.

The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.

Though we may choose to view them symbolically, dreams are actually no more or less symbolic than everyday waking reality. When the images and events don't conform to our view of reality, we call them symbols. When they do, we call them facts.

The shortest interval between two points is the awareness that they are not two.

The awareness that seeks to know is the very object of its own seeking.

The stories you believe to be true are the ones your life will become.

We do not see things as they are, nor do we even see them as we are, but only as we believe our story to have been.

Our task and challenge as human beings is to appreciate, in the same instant, both the infinite significance and absolute insignificance of life.

Time itself is only as real as your own mental discrimination between the revelation and concealment of the one Light.

Reality is what one makes it. And the more negative reality one nurtures and creates, the more of it one has.

It's amusing to me that we refer to people who live in their heads as detached, disturbed, or mad, when reality for anyone is actually a matter of the individual's state of mind. The mad truth - all people live in their heads. Whatever you think life is, it is.

...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.

As humans, reality for us is largely based on other people's perceptions. If there's 20 bodies in your crawl space but you haven't been caught yet, you tell yourself you're still a birthday clown, and that's how you keep doing it.

I live in a world where people are guided by limited imagination; only facts that are favorable to them are truths. They are unable to live anyway else. When a person finds out that a fact is against them, it's usually because it's the truth. No one tries to step outside of the edge of reason. No one tries to step beyond the edge of the world.

I do think that our perception of reality is fragmentary, and in 20th-century literature, it’s totally normal to not describe reality as something whole and completely transportable and explicable. That’s been accepted in novels. But genre films always pretend that reality is transportable, which means that it is explicable.

People enjoy the passion of delusions. However, the world is built on a basis that if you free yourself, you find yourself within another illusion. There is always a truth hidden within a truth. It is no different from illusions and deceptions of reality. The question then becomes - how does one become truly free?

You can't change reality - only its perception.

Reality is a changeless concept that only perception can mask.

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.

If you know something is an illusion, why pretend it is reality?