Quotes About Perception

It has come to pass', she wrote, in lines that reverberate still, 'that the working class is used, so to speak, as the unit of the moral investigation, until we well nigh believe that this class is the chief repository of the vices and virtues of the nation'.

A personal brand is a perception or emotion, maintained by somebody other than you, that describes your outstanding qualities and influences that person's relationship with

Most people think that their only option is to change their circumstances. But these are not the true causes of their unhappiness. It has more to do with the way they think about their circumstances.

even the most powerful first impressions could mask a very different truth.

Whatever is in our mind, we project onto the world outside us. Step by step, if we transform the way we think, especially by letting go of the self-grasping mind, we also transform our reality.

as we think, so we become.

it is not so much the circumstances of our lives that make us happy or unhappy but the way we see them.

When you say 'This is a bad thing that's happening,' how often are you wrong?

What is the point of making up a story about ourselves that we hate? Whatever story we come up with is going to be different from the one that other people have created about us anyway—you can be sure of that.

our problems are not out there in the world, but in our minds—where we can do something about them.

instantly understood in that moment, however, was that the version of the beings we saw in the world around us was as much a reflection of our own mind, as it was of them. And that the more our mind was filled with thoughts of self and our own needs and wishes, the less space and compassion there was for others—and the less happy we would be.

Isn't it curious how, very occasionally, we have a strong and inexplicable feeling about a complete stranger? Most of the time, someone we don't know is just someone we don't know. Perhaps we form an impression of them on account of how they dress, speak, or move. We usually have no expectation, no feeling—good or bad—when we first encounter a new person.

I am how I am because all this is how it is. Each a different aspect of the same reality.

when I really paid close attention, when my mind was open and my senses acute, I was able to find intense joy in the simplest of things.

everything depends on mind.

When we make judgements about things based on appearance, instead of on what really matters, we get into trouble.

The stress isn't coming from 'out there.' Mainly it is coming from our mind.

Naše prožívaní reality je spíš projekcí naší vlastní mysli, a to mnohem víc než si p?ipouštíme.

If nothing around us has any genuine substance, then all the happiness or unhappiness we feel comes from our mind. All qualities, attractive and unattractive, are a product of mind alone.

the most powerful first impressions could mask a very different truth.

As I was discovering, even the most powerful first impressions could mask a very different truth.

Change our mind, and we change our experience.

When we understand the true nature of mind, we start to see these thoughts merely as thoughts instead of engaging with them. They arise, abide, and pass. They have no substance and certainly no power unless we git it to them.

the experience of an event depends on the mind of the experiencer, even more than the event itself.