Quotes About Perception

How queer to think that the old lady in the black military cloak was the Miss Milly who went to the dancing class! It makes me wonder what I shall be like when I am old.

He can be so appreciative of all forms of art, but so matter-of-fact and unemotional about it.

Perhaps he found beauty saddening – I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty's evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die.

The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon

I really am just as discontented, but I don't seem to notice it so much.

Perhaps the effect wears off in time, or perhaps you don't notice it if you are born with it, but it does seem to me that the climate of richness must always be a little dulling to the senses. Perhaps it takes the edge off joy as well as off sorrow.

Because there's so much that just can't be said plainly. Try describing what beauty is - plainly - and you'll see what I mean.

they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

But there is something I want to capture. It has to do with the feeling I had when I watched the Cottons coming down the lane, the queer separate feeling. I like seeing people when they can't see me. I have often looked at our family through lighted windows and they seem quite different, a bit the way rooms seen in looking-glasses do. I can't get the feeling into words — it slipped away when I tried to capture it.

There are some people who always find beauty makes them feel sadder, which is a very mysterious thing.

I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.

Mrs. Fox-Cotton said that was no book for little girls, I told him. It's no book for little vicars, he said, chuckling.

If you can't find the truth right where you are, where do you expect to find it?

The longness and shortness of the present moment can be recognized by utilizing a big image of the moon, which is reflecting on the surface of the ocean, and a small image of the moon on the surface of a cup of water, or in another example the very wide scale of the whole sky itself, and the very narrow space of the moon, which is shining in the sky.

That the self advances and confirms the myriad things is called delusion. That the myriad things advance and confirm the self is enlightenment.

As we have no concept of time, each of you has already been each other and are being each other in your future. We know this is not very clear to you at this time. However, each of you will be given information in your near future, in which each of you will be challenged to examine this concept. That is: the past and present simultaneous with the future.

The most common descriptions I have found of the moment when death occurs is that there is a feeling of coldness and then suddenly the spirit is standing by the side of the bed (or wherever) looking at their body. They usually can't understand why the other people in the room are so upset because they feel so wonderful. The overall sensation is one of exhilaration rather than dread.

Just as putting a gender on a being limits in some way the way we think about the being. By putting any kind of label on anything, we limit it.

And love is a force much misunderstood by humans, who put it into a very tiny, narrow little box.

Do not carve on stone or wood, He was honest or He was good. Write in smoke on a passing breeze Seven words… and the words are these, Telling all that a volume could, He lived, he laughed and… he understood.

What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.

You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?