Perception Quotes
The most positive action we can take about the past is to change our perception of it.
Remember that our reactions are a product of our perceptions, and our perceptions are a result of what is at the center of our life.
I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions.
Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?
As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something.
Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.
Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge.
Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions and conceptions.
The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.
Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.
We are all connected and operate within living fields of thought and perception. The world is not fixed but is in constant flux; accordingly, the future is not fixed, and so can be shaped.
The essence of sculpture is for me the perception of space, the continuum of our existence.
A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis.
Prayer does not change God, it changes us. It deepens insight, increases intuitive perception, expands consciousness. It transforms personality.
Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections.
While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.
Those who are highly evolved, maintain an undiscriminating perception. Seeing everything, labeling nothing, they maintain their awareness of the Great Oneness. Thus they are supported by it.
Have you ever considered that your perception of reality could be wrong? If you haven't, this is a pretty good sign that it is.
When the narrator feels like an octopus, when he says his limbs are starting to multiply, he means he has inklings of orders of perception beyond his individual body.
Slowing down doesn't mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.
There is this false perception that comedians can never be serious. It's like from like the era of court jesters.
Belief and disbelief have divided humankind into so many sects, blinding its eyes to the vision of the Oneness of all Life.
When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.
...Therefore it is said: 'The perception of a phenomenon IS the perception of the Universal Nature, since phenomena and Mind are one and the same.'
We are selling ourselves very short by funneling our energies into what the traditional perception is of academic and monetary success.
Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
Within each experience of pain or negativity is the opportunity to challenge the perception that lies behind it and to choose to learn with wisdom.
I'm from the bottom, I understand what it's like to have and to not have. My perception on giving is to put yourself in those people's shoes and go from there. So that's what I did.
There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.
For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.
Style isn't something added on; it's intrinsic to the perceptions and the way you see life.
I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman...come in the guise of a comic...to heal perception by using...'jokes'.
Had I not been told to look, I would have quite, ignorant of what was really there, because I had 'made plans' and was wearing visual and emotional blinders that limited my perceptions and my vision.
Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.
Our world exists onlythrough our perception of it. Change our perception of our world and we change the world -- for us.
To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.
Clear perception is the cornerstone and an absolute necessity for living your best life - and that's exactly what the focus of a yoga practice should be all about.
