Quotes About Perception

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists

Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.

There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.

As through this world I rambled I've seen lots of funny men. Some will rob you with a six-gun And some with a fountain pen.

How can you bring more light to the ephemeras who are plunged into the fire, because they have already had the light of the fire then.

The reason so many people are unhappy is, for the most part, delusion. They believe the predominant myths that our culture propagates about happiness.

Todd paused and stared into Terrence's eyes. there was no understanding there, just a white-hot rage and fear. he was looking at Todd the way you would look at a kid on ritalin who'd just taken a loaded shotgun down from the mantel.

How was I supposed to know Jesus was brown?" replied Private Daniels with labored breath, dodging mortar explosions. "Blame Caucasian society for that shit, not me! Sunday School told me he looked like bearded Ewan McGregor, not the reanimated corpse of Osama bin Laden floating through the fucking sky! I thought he was coming to get us and I panicked!

They all liked California, but they thought the people were cold.

Pretty good-looking women, in the main, thanks to the California sun.

Nothing in the world is difficult," said the Patriarch, "it is only our own thoughts that make things seem so.

You can walk from the time of your youth till the time you grow old, and after that, till you become youthful again; and even after going through such cycle a thousand times, you may still find it difficult to reach the place you want to go. But when you percieve, by the resoluteness of your will, the Buddha-nature in all things, and when every one of your thoughts goes back to its very source in your memory, that will be the time you arrive at the Spirit Mountain.

Nothing in the world is difficult"..."it is only our own thoughts that make things seem so.

Lo scempio che san fare le femmine, manco i corvi ... Stasera te le ritrovi all'assemblea di sezione con certe muste che fai meglio a guardarti le unghie se non vuoi che te la grattino loro la rogna. Stanno tutte ingruppate, che paiono una cosa sola, un mostro bertoccuto e chioccio, con certe grinfie dritte e puntute come ferri da maglia.

The master sees beyond what is obvious. He sees the unseen, feels the unfelt, and hears the unheard. He looks below the surface for what is hidden and so finds the great heartbeat of the Universe. He smiles, knowing it is his heartbeat, your heartbeat, our heartbeat.

Faith is stronger than so-called reality.

Music open our minds to allow the perception of new thoughts of a higher nature, which gives us a spiritual lift, which produces yet more joy.

Only an object can suffer, but phenomenally subject and object, being one whole, spin like a coin so that the intervals between pile et face (heads and tails) are imperceptible. Consequently pain, or pleasure, appear to be continual. Noumenally, on the contrary, there is no object to suffer pain or pleasure. Noumenon is invulnerable, and cannot be otherwise. Noumenon is the unmanifested aspect of what we, sentient beings, are: Phenomenon is our manifestation.

If you'd asked me at age eight to describe God, I would have said that He was 100 feet tall and had long white hair and a gray robe. He was looking down only at me, and His book was always open so He could keep score. As a result of what He saw with me, God was frowning.

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Many great writers address audiences who do not exist; to address passionately and sometimes with very great wisdom people who do not exist has this advantage—that there will always be a group of people who, seeing a man shouting apparently at somebody or other, and seeing nobody else in sight, will think it is they who are being addressed.

We are against the glorification of "the People," as we are against snobbery. It is not necessary to be an outcast bohemian, to be unkempt or poor, any more than it is necessary to be rich or handsome, to be an artist. Art is nothing to do with the coat you wear. A top-hat can well hold the Sixtine. A cheap cap could hide the image of Kephren.

There is nothing contemptible about an intoxicated man (if it is nothing more than a bookful of words or a roomful of notes that he has got drunk on).