Perception Quotes - Page 6

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

There is always that one band that comes along when you are 14 or 15 years old that manages to hit you in just the right way and changes your whole perception of things.

The nature of the Absolute is neither perceptible nor imperceptible; and with phenomena it is just the same. But to one who has discovered his real nature, how can there be anywhere or anything separate from it?... ...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.'

When I close my eyes my vision is even more powerful.

Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.

Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception

Synchronistic events offer us perceptions that may be useful in our psychological and spiritual growth and may reveal to us, through intuitive knowledge, that our lives have meaning.

A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding; and by this understanding you will awaken to the truth.

How does one stay mindful? Where feelings are known as they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. Thoughts are known as they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. Perceptions are known they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. This is how a monk stays awake.

All perception is a gamble.

My road is towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I decipher in a new way the world unknown to you.

We see things not as they are, but as we are. Our perception is shaped by our precious experiences.

Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.

We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.

These disturbing phenomena [Extra Sensory Perception] seem to deny all our scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming.

When we become fixed in our perceptions we lose our ability to fly.

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

It is perhaps wrong to say that the enemy of enlightenment is logic; rather, it is dualistic, verbal thinking. In fact, it is even more basic than that: it is perception.

Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion

Everything is Spirit - in essence, though hidden in manifestation. If you had the perception, you would see God in everything.

Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.

You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody else’s, not something that you have been told, because there is no teacher and no follower.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Perception and reality are two different things.