Quotes About Perception

When told that man lives in delusion everyone thinks of himself as the exception; hence his delusion.

The fact is, that having once seen Alice Oke in the reality, it was quite impossible to remember that one could have fancied her at all different: there was something so complete, so completely unlike every one else, in her personality, that she seemed always to have been present in one's consciousness, although present, perhaps, as an enigma.

Tycoon had a peddler's talent for using words to redefine reality.

minds, who can show the rest of us what is important about the aliens' differences. So Trixia's

Johanna was looking at her expectantly, and suddenly Ravna realized that the girl thought librarians must be experts at everything.

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.

We're long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.

The hours came to minutes, the minutes to seconds. And now each second was as long as all the time before

Looks like someone had a mood swing." She rolls her eyes. Like you don't want to know what his fears are. He acts so tough that he's probably afraid of marshmallows and really bright sunrises or something.

What is it with you today?" says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face. Oh, you know," I say. Sun shining. Birds chirping." She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.

Sometimes I still forget to look for the gentler parts of her. For so long all I saw was the strength, standing out like the wiry muscles in her arms or the black ink marking her collarbone with flight.

Circumstances can be neither positive or negative; there are neutral. Only by your thinking do you attribute circumstances either positive or negative.

Did I know who I was, or did I just learn to forget myself?

El poeta representa el drama angustioso que se realiza entre el mundo y el cerebro humano, entre el mundo y su representación. El que no haya sentido el drama que se juega entre la cosa y la palabra, no podrá comprenderme.

The real thing is always going on somewhere else. When you're young you think it will come later. Later on you think it was earlier. When you are here, you think it is there--in India, in America, on Popocatepetl or somewhere. But when you get there, you find that life has doubled back and is quietly waiting here, here in the very place you ran away from.

One imagines everything higher than it is, till one sees it. You come on your travels from your little provincial town with false ideas about life. Grand Hotel, you think. Most expensive hotel, you think. God knows what marvels you expect from a hotel like this. You'll soon know all about it. The whole hotel is only a rotten pub. It is exactly the same with the whole of life. The whole of life is a rotten pub, Herr Kringelein. You arrive, stay for a while and go on again.

Listen to yourself when you talk; you might be surprised at what you hear.

for he felt moved by forces that weren't necessarily visible or easily explainable. Coming to Burma had only amplified those leanings. "There are ways of knowing things quite certainly but not by reason," he would write, "and in the East both the wise and the simple accept this.

Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart" (1 Sam. 16:7).

sometimes it's not necessary to know what elephants or people are thinking, as long as one honors what they are feeling.

people cause so much of their own suffering just because they think that without having these strong emotions they're not real people.

these absurd mental fluctuations that I call me.

Looks can't hide your true identity. It's the eyes that give you away…the soul behind them. The intent. The Shadows.