Quotes About Perception

Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.

Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.

The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.

The imperfect is our paradise.

The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.

A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.

I am what is around me.

I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself; And there I found myself more truly and more strange.

One must read poetry with one's nerves.

in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.

The yellow glistens. It glistens with various yellows, Citrons, oranges and greens Flowering over the skin.

For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.

Life is like a mirror, what you see out there, you must first see what is inside you.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

It was a matter of perspective, I began to see. The whole world was crazy; I'd flattered myself by assuming I was a semifinalist." -- Dolores Price

The name one gives is inessential. What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by other name would smell as sweet.

Almost all religions are built on faith—rather 'blind' faith it would seem. But in Buddhism emphasis is laid on 'seeing', knowing, understanding, and not on faith, or belief.

When, for instance, we meet a man, we do not look on him as a human being, but we put a label on him, such as English, French, German, American, or Jew, and regard him with all the prejudices associated with that label in our mind. Yet he may be completely free from those attributes which we have put on him.

It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is movement itself. Life and movement are not two different things. In other words, there is no thinker behind the thought. Thought itself is the thinker. If you remove the thought, there is no thinker to be found.

You may see the light, but the light is not the result of your eyesight.

Buddhism does not recognize a spirit opposed to matter, as is accepted by most other systems of philosophies and religions. Mind is only a faculty or organ (indriya) like the eye or the ear. It can be controlled and developed like any other faculty [...]. The difference between the eye and the mind as faculties is that the former senses the world of colours and visible forms, while the latter senses the world of ideas and thoughts and mental objects.

It is always seeing through knowledge or wisdom (ñ??a-dassana), and not believing through faith.