Perception Quotes
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"The more I see, the less I know for sure."
"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough"
"Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it."
"Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out."
"Sometimes your light shines so bright that it blinds people from seeing who you really are."
"It's all in the mind."
"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise."
"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."
"Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty."
"When I win, it’s because I’m skilled. When I lose, it’s because my opponent is lucky. But when I fall in love, it’s because I’m lucky and she’s skilled."
"The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday become an evil monster, or are you an evil monster that thinks it's a decent girl?""Wouldn't I know which one I was?""Good God, no. The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves."
"Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality."
"To make my meal in a box taste better, I decided to tweak the logo, rather than the ingredients."
"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite."
"The wise do not buy into other people’s perceptions of who they are and what they are capable of. Instead, they bypass a person’s public persona and see who they are in their highest expression. When you see actions taken with integrity, instead of words only, you will then know a soul’s worth."
"We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream."
"As soon as you cross the county line into where all the wealthier people live, the weather is suddenly sunnier and warmer. Even at night."
"In this treacherous worldNothing is the truth nor a lie.Everything depends on the colorOf the crystal through which one sees it"
"Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality...Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense."
"When you look at the past without God’s eyes, you subject yourself to deception. The past no longer exists and God doesn’t linger there. However, Satan will show you whatever you want to see and believe, so you will be trapped in an emotion that cannot communicate truth, beyond what you want to remember."
"Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so does a man develop in himself soul and spiritual organs of perception through which the soul and spiritual worlds are opened to him. For those who do not have such higher senses, these worlds are dark and silent, just as the bodily world is dark and silent for a being without eyes and ears."
"Most of us go through each day looking for what we saw yesterday And, not surprisingly, that is what we find."
"Your agreement with reality defines your life."
"To witness miracles unfold in your experience, count your blessings and be thankful. Perceived small blessings accumulate to be the most powerful."
"The master said You must write what you see.But what I see does not move me.The master answered Change what you see."
"There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appearobvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact oppositemay also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is butperception, viewed through various prisms of context."
"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."
"There are two paths of which one may choose in the walk of life; one we are born with, and the one we consciously blaze. One is naturally true, while the other is a perceptive illusion. Choose wisely at each fork in the road."
"Impossibility only lasts until you find new unbelievable hard evidences."
"all appears to change when we change"
"I Am In Love With Myself, With My Heart."
"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."
"The truth is helpless when up against perception"
"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."
"Christ delves far beyond the means of superficiality, not simply because of his immaculate love, but also because he considers the distinct cases of each individual rather than withholding a broadened perception by use of stereotypes."
"Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them."
"All we know is what we're told."
"To become a true global citizen, one must abandon all notions of 'otherness' and instead embrace 'togetherness'."
"Life: It is better not to wrap philosophy around such an inconceivable evolving beautiful mystery. If based on perception, alone; whatever the conclusion - it is still guessing."
"Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you."
"Perception can be one-sided or variant: "Glass half empty or half full."There usually is more than one way of perceiving. Thoroughly check your inner dialogue."
"Stop counting your losses and start counting your blessings. Only then will you discover that losses are always easier to point out and count than blessings. And that your blessings will always outnumber your losses, for they are truly immeasurable."
"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."
"The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can [...] be closed with a shout of recognition."
"Why then should witless man so much misweeneThat nothing is but that which he hath seene?"
"Not because we think that it's still about to happen, thus makes our future life as though yet to be exist.Human mind can't yet perceive the nature of future."
"Why is my perception right? If it is wrong, then what is right?"
"Explanations can’t explain love--only deep perception can do that."
"There is no stress. It is a misinterpretation of a situation. Just change your perception and stress will melt away."
"Trust the perception not the presentation."
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