Quotes About Perception

A thick and shapeless trunk would never believe that it could become a statue, admired as a miracle of sculpture, and would never consent to submit itself to the chisel of the sculptor who sees by his genius what he can make of it.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

One lives by memory . . . and not by truth.

There is no beauty in Music itself, the beauty is within the listener

born born everything is always born thinking about it try not to

why is it all so beautiful this fake dream this craziness why?

I can see clouds a thousand miles away, hear ancient music in the pines.

The mind like the tree of life is found in the inexplicable extricacies of Divine Ordinance only to be unearth by provocative thinking-perhaps our perception!

Mike went fishing one day, but at the end he had not caught a single fish. On the way back home, he stopped at a fish store. "I want to buy three trout, please," he said to the owner. "But instead of putting them in a bag, can you throw them to me?" "Throw them? Why do you want me to do that?" the owner asked. Mike replied, "So I can tell everyone that I caught three fish!

What's green and blue and yellow and black? A burnt peacock.

Sherlock Holmes and his trusty associate Watson were on a camping trip. They had gone to bed and were lying there looking up at the sky. Holmes said, "Watson, look up and tell me what you see." "Well, I see thousands of stars," he replied. "And what does that tell you?" asked Holmes. "I guess it means we're going to have another nice day tomorrow. What does it mean to you?" "To me, it means that someone has stolen our tent.

To see truth as truth, we don't need a lot of study. It's not complicated. What we need is pure observation. An open mind and fresh eyes will serve us well.

Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy.

A more truthful perception may be seen from the perspective of the whole - what we really are, beyond names, roles, education, religion and other information added to our true nature.

But now Jay's mind was so full of other things that he could no longer hear the bird's song.

Everyone has it To know what it is. Take a journey deep within And open your eyes wide. Then you will see everything.

Consciousness is part of our nature as sentient beings, but doesn't mean we are aware at a particular moment. By perceiving our consciousness - becoming conscious of consciousness, we become aware.

You know what awareness is only when you are aware. Awareness is the perception of your presence in the now.

Although we have refined our behavior over many centuries, the basic perception that we are individual beings, separate from the rest of the world, remains unchanged, and so how we relate to the world remains unchanged. Because separation is an illusion, control is also an illusion.

When you experience being present, there is no separation between you and other things. If you feel separate, you are already out of the present and returned to your familiar land of names and concepts.

The common factor in all our experiences is wakeful consciousness which turns what happens into an experience or a meaningful reality.