Quotes About Perception

Looking forward" to what you think enlightenment might be at some grand point in the future keeps you from seeing the truth of its presence right now.

Awareness is that which is reading these words right now, whatever "that" is. You know without a doubt that there is something reading these words right now and awareness is precisely what that is.

The One that experiences itself as your body-mind is the same One that experiences itself in every other body-mind, form, or appearance that exists.

Nothing can be the total truth in the worlds of manifestation and the more solid your concepts, the more likely they are going to sink you, sooner or later.

In enlightenment, the seer and the seen disappear. Or, more accurately, are seen through as illusions. In reality, they were never there, apart from being concept and misunderstanding.

If we were rational enough to judge what we are fed based on what we are fed, those in the business of selling us hope (i.e., public speakers, presidents, priests, etc.) wouldn't wear suits.

What you think of me does not change who I am.

A friend gives me an abusive word and a stranger does the same!!!! Huge difference, coz what matters is WHO said IT!!!!!

Some see the glass as half full, others see it as half empty, and then there are those who see it as a glass of water.Open your eyes and your mind to see beyond the obvious." ~

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don't pay attention to how things move through space.

I like to watch French movies with the volume up so my neighbors could think I'm terrorist.

I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.

If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.

Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.

I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're famous. So I worry that my stuff might be like that, too.

When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.

Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.

Training Day was such a Hollywood movie; I didn't like it.

Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped.

They're always wrong in the movies.

When you use more than 3-5% of your brain, you don't want to be on Earth!"-Bob Diamond, Interdimensional Attorney, from the Albert Brooks' movie, Defending Your Life