Quotes About Perception

Sapete, alle volte è l'amore degli altri che ci innamora: vediamo una persona solo quando essa chiede i nostri occhi.

The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see the U.N. and what it means clearly. Everything will be all right -- you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction, and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.

You are... the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does.

Faith is the belief in the invisible. It would be a dull world, indeed, if only the visible were reality.

i see said the duke but my own idear is that these things are as piffle before the wind [from memory...]

From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.

Surely the world we live in is but the world that lives in us.

the problem might be she calls herself "she" ...

when I see you here amidst all this, I realise that I proposed to a very small part of you. I thought I was giving you a home and a position, but here I see that I am taking you away from so much.

The English were infuriating. Everything was designed to put an outsider at a disadvantage. If you had to ask, you didn't belong.

But it was better to know of it than to see it in its daily monotony.

Sisi knew that it was hopeless to live up to the fairy-tale princess with stars in her hair of the Winterhalter portrait, an image that sold everything from chocolates to liver salts in Vienna, but she found it impossible not to try. Beauty was her gift, her weapon and her power, and she dreaded its passing.

I can't believe gow many famous people and TV cameras there are in this room," said Mrs Walker, looking around at the other tables. "I feel like a star." "You always look like a star to me," said Mr Walker, smiling at her.

She was hearing the words. They just weren't registering on her Richter scale of sanity.

Chemistry is a funny thing, miss. Sometimes those who are experiencing it aren't always aware they are.

So he was good-looking and he had a great set of thighs. Chickens had nice thighs, too.

But if you feel better about how you present yourself to the world, how you feel about you, inside and out, I don't see the shallow in that.

Maybe I am losing it. They say a big sign of mental illness is not knowing you have it. But isn't it real insanity to go through the world ignoring people in front of you? All your friends were strangers before they became friends. I sneak glances at the darling strangers on the subway.

How amazing that you can think you are experiencing a profound happening, almost like a miracle--and then you realize that you just made it that way in you mind

Every appearance or sound is like an illusion, mirage, or reflection; It is substance without the mark of reality. The mind that perceives such illusion is like space.

Concerning the perception of form, sound, or knowledge, these are not the object of negation; What must be rejected is conceptualized dualism, which is the cause of all miseries.

The mind in its great sublime bliss is nondual, being neither self nor others, for it perceives intrinsic reality, which is before one, behind one, and around one in all the ten directions.

In Buddhism we have relative truth and absolute truth.