Quotes About Perception

We can never see our own faces directly, never look straight into our own eyes.

Pourtant, il y a une lucidité qui nous vient parfois dans ces moments-là, quand on se surprend à regarder le monde à travers ses larmes, comme si elles servaient de lentilles pour rendre plus net ce que l'on regarde.

He who ends with the most understanding wins.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Indeed the very worst kind of man for a women to be in an intimate relationship with, often a truly dangerous man, is the one considered most sexy and desirable in the popular culture.

Jennifer thought it must be abnormal for such a young child to be thinking about diets, let alone wanting boys to like her for being "pretty" and "sexy.

But when you live in beauty and look from beauty, everything points in different ways to your wholeness.

When you become responsive to the solicitations of silence, you may be called to explore the invitation. This exploration is a kind of laboratory. You may sit and observe the coming and going of perceptions. You remain present to them but do not follow them. Following a thought is what maintains it. If you remain present without becoming an accomplice, agitation slows down through lack of fuel. In the absence of agitation you are taken by the resonance of stillness.

The world is directed towards the perceiver, it celebrates the ultimate perceiver. He who is established in the Self is in no way interested in theologies and cosmologies.

achievements. The world is directed towards the perceiver, it celebrates the ultimate perceiver. He who is established in the Self is in no way interested in theologies and cosmologies.

There is a tendency to treat them as though they were acting, not from the inside, but from the outside, so that it may be possible to bring the shield against stimuli into operation as a means of defence against them.

While he has not, in my hearing, spoken the English language, he makes it perfectly plain that he understands it. And he uses his ears, tail, eyebrows, various rumbles and grunts, the slant of his great cold nose or a succession of heartrending sighs to get his meaning across.

It is very annoying, when people notice your weak moments but never see your strong ones.

Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.

Every edit is a lie.

The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second

We protect children from danger, real and imaginary, and are then surprised when they go to college and create safe spaces designed to repel the real world.

social media is not real life. Her photos, which looked like casual snaps, actually took several hours to set up and up to a hundred attempts to get right...

many iGen students seem to see their schools as behind the times, irrelevant in a fast-paced world of constantly changing technology.

We're not number one, but we're number one in thinking we are number one.

Truth is everywhere, and easily seen. Believing one's eyes Is the difficulty.