Quotes About Perception

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.

The Divine realm extends to the earthly; but the later, illusory in nature, does not contain the essence of Reality.

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.

Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

Young leaves The sound of a waterfall Heard from far and near.

If in the darkness of ignorance, you don't recognize a person's true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.

I discovered I scream the same way whether I'm about to be devoured by a great white shark or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

You govern your surroundings by the nature of what is taking place in your consciousness.

It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat.

The very nature of cool is that you think about it too much and it becomes uncool.

Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.