Quotes About Perception

Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.

Después de comer alcachofas el agua tiene un sabor azul.

Al inventarse el cine las nubes paradas en las fotografías comenzaron a andar.

Debía de haber unos prismáticos de oler para percibir el perfume de los jardines lejanos.

Indians are better speakers than listeners

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

The world is not outside you.

There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.

Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage

Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge. But some of these rules and discipline are good for beginners.

There is nothing like 'within' or 'without.' Both mean either the same thing or nothing.

When the mind that is subtle goes out through the brain and the sense-organs, the gross names and forms appear; when it stays in the Heart, the names and forms disappear.

42. The colour of milk is one, the colours of the cows many, So is the nature of knowledge, observe the wise ones. Beings of various marks and attributes, Are like the cows, their realisation is the same; This is an example we should know.

As the activities of the wise man exist only in the eyes of others and not in his own, although he may be accomplishing immense tasks, he really does nothing.

If the light of the sun is invisible to the owl it is only the fault of that bird and not of the sun.

A dreamer dreams that everyone else in his dream must awaken before he can awaken.

One can know oneself only with one's own eye of knowledge, and not with somebody else's. Does he who is Rama require the help of a mirror to know that he is Rama?

The whole universe is only mental. (p. 351)

All religions first postulate three principles, the world, the soul and God. To say that one principle alone appears as the three principles or that the three principles are always three principles is possible only as long as the ego exists.1

All that is needed is that you give up your realisation of the not-true as true.

If you take the appearance to be real you will never know the Real itself, although it is the Real alone that exists. This point is illustrated by the analogy of the 'snake in the rope'. As long as you see the snake you cannot see the rope as such. The non-existent snake becomes real to you, while the real rope seems wholly non-existent as such.

If the idea 'I am the body' is accepted, the selves are multiple. The state in which this idea vanishes is the Self since in that state there are no other objects.

Questioner: Can one read others minds? Ramana Maharshi: Where are others apart from one's own Self?