Quotes About Perception

If my heart could do my thinking, and my head begin to feel, I would look upon the world anew, and know what's truly real.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

If my heart could do my thinking, and my head begin to feel, I would look upon the world anew, and know what's truly real.

As Sri Krishna says, And when he sees me in all and sees all in me, then I never leave him and he never leaves me. And he, who in this oneness of love loves me in whatever he sees, wherever this man may live, in truth, he lives in me...

The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.

The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.

Somebody said there are three kinds of lies: black lies, white lies, and statistics.

The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.

Dominant modes of perception based on reductionism, duality and linearity are unable to cope with equality in diversity, with forms and activities that are significant and valid,

Properties perceived in nature will depend on how one looks and how one looks depends on the economic interest one has in the resources of nature. The value of profit maximization is thus linked to reductionist systems, while the value of life and the maintenance of life is linked to holistic and ecological systems.

And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.

I feel like I gather up other people's energy. Not on purpose but my eyes are open to everything. We are all part of the same phantom fabric anyway.

People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.

There is something in the eyes of a bonobo that you don't see in those of a tiger or a shark. They are human eyes, but not the cautious glimpse of a stranger you pass on a city street, or the pretended interest of a shrink you're paying $300 an hour. Or someone you think you recognize but don't. The eyes of a bonobo are the eyes of your best friend or a lover or a priest. They see into you. They see nothing else. They invite confession.

First impression is the best impression.

I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened.

What I saw was the hoax: Immortals questioning mortality when they should have asked eternity.

Because I had goodwill for all, I thought all were my friends; and then I learned of treachery, that some preferred my end. A glorious day, the one I learned the meaning of the word. It's good to know my enemies, though their reasons are absurd.

Gossip can be entertaining—occasionally I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

Recognition of one's fellows is distorted when money is prioritized as value itself.

Sometimes it's the girl who wouldn't give a kiss that the boys call a slut.

The news is disease in disguise pretending to be information.

To a friend, achievement is good news, to an enemy, it's bragging.

A belief may be larger than a fact.