Quotes About Perception

I can't do that." Those belief structures are by their very nature based in unreality.

Oneness is when there isn't another. Oneness is—there is only this. There is no that over there, there is only this. And that's all there is. There is only this, and as soon as you say what this is, you've just defined what it's not. This is only realized in the utter demolition of everything that it's not. Then that awakening is an awakening outside of everything that comes and goes. It is a total waking up outside of time.

Okay, you want to see God? Here is God—all of God. Not just the part you want to see, but all of it.

Spiritual people always think the Truth is hidden from them. It is not hidden. What gets in the way is the idea of what it is going to be.

As I listened to this priest, all the presence and mystery disappeared from the room and everything returned to the relative world.

Thinking is something and then feeling it are two different reference points for most human beings: If I think it and I feel it, then it is real. But it does not take much reflection to acknowledge we have all thought and felt things to be true that later found out were not.

It's as if you wake up from the dream of thinking that you're already awake in your ordinary waking state. When you are spiritually awakened, what you thought was an awake state now seems like a dream.

ADYA I will try to explain what happened experientially. At the moment of awakening, it was as though I was completely outside who I thought I was. There was a vast, vast, vast emptiness. In that vast emptiness, in that infinite emptiness, there was the smallest, smallest, smallest point of light you could imagine. And

The Gospel of Thomas presents the Kingdom of Heaven as something that exists right here and right now. In fact, it's all about what's right here and right now. In it, we find Jesus saying, "The Kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it.

Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.

Truly even he errs that is wiser than the wise.

The polished brass is mirror of the form, wine of the soul.

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

Bronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart.

Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time.

Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.

The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, What a dust do I raise!

Appearances are often deceiving.

Appearances often are deceiving.

Even a hare, the weakest of animals, may insult a dead lion.

Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.

The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing.