Quotes About Perception

If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why. If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude?

Two people can illustrate crudity to you. The first is the crude man, whom you see perceiving the diamond as a stone. The other is the refined man, who makes clear to you the crudity of the first one.

You fear tomorrow: yet yesterday is just as dangerous.

When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.

You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.

Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.

When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.

In the distorting mirror of your mind, an angel can seem to have a devil's face.

The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.

Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.

Voice in the night A voice whispered to me last night: 'There is no such thing as a voice whispering in the night!

Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets; many who are in their graves are in reality alive.

The existence of relative truth does not prove the non-existence of universal truth.

if... says: 'Do not be greedy, be generous', you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a greed for generosity

When the human being says: 'It is not true...' He may mean: 'I don't know about it, so I think it is untrue.' Or: 'I don't like it.

What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.

Show a man too many camels' bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one.

You can perceive a person's aspiration if it is genuine, because this creates a change in the emanations from such a person.

Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?

Man thinks many things. He thinks he is One. He is usually several. Until he becomes One, he cannot have a fair idea of what he is at all.

Sufis deny the absolute reality of time, space and physical form. These things are both relative and local. They only appear to be absolute.

People think that they think things, and they also think that they know things. They could usefully give some attention to the question of whether they know what they think and know what they think they know.

The Book of Wisdom. Simab said: 'I shall sell the Book of Wisdom for a hundred gold pieces, and some people will say that it is cheap.' Yunus Marmar said to him: 'And I shall give away the key to understanding it, and almost none shall take it, even free of charge.