Quotes About Perception

Exaggeration is a standard peculiarity of man. To deprecate is often a form of exaggeration which people do not notice, because it appears to be its opposite.

When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge

Mediation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.

There is a saying that, according to what a person's mentality is, even an angel may seem to him to have a devil's face.

What you are seeking in your retreat, I see clearly in every road and alleyway.

People generally deal with situations by means of assumptions.

A man's capacity is the same as his breadth of vision.

It is as true as anything else which can be spoken to say that all knowledge is really available everywhere.

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. (Mirza Ahsan of Tabriz)

Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: 'Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue'.

From a personal experience and the examination of literature, I feel that we cannot take for granted that a dialogue, without information and perhaps without understanding, is possible between any individuals or groups on all levels. So the prerequisite is information.

Because sugar is not arsenic, many graves are full.

There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Truthful man: He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Wisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it.

The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds

Water shrinks wool, urgency shrinks time. Shrinkage may be an advantage or the reverse, according to expectation.

It is not always a question of the Emperor having no clothes on. Sometimes it is, 'Is that an Emperor at all?

Wisdom Sufian said: 'The wisdom which is invisible but which sustains is a hundred times better than the appearance of wisdom, for that has itself to be sustained.

Learn about hornets from those who have been stung by them.

The king said, 'What wisdom have you gained from this event?' The scholar replied: 'I now understand that if anyone were to remain perceptive to the real condition of men all the time, he would go mad.' The dervish told him: 'Now you know that the dervish lore includes the knowledge of when to be awake and when to remain asleep.

P: ¿Cuál es el error fundamental del hombre? R: Pensar que está vivo, cuando simplemente se ha dormido en la antesala de la vida.

Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time.