Quotes About Perception

You may learn to imitate a birdcall, but do you experience what the nightingale feels for the rose?

We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience.

Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

What we get from each moment depends on the attention we give it, and the quality of our experience reflects the quality of our awareness.

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

Everything else you see and experience in this world is effect, and that includes your feelings. The cause is always your thoughts.

An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

The only way to experience an experience is to experience it

Looking at fires when high, by the way, especially through one of those prism kaleidoscopes which image their surroundings, is an extraordinarily moving and beautiful experience.

You can experience a download, but you can't download an experience.

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission.

The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment.

We're all subjective beings and trapped in our own realities and our own biographical stories and physical bodies and our histories - and that's the only way we can experience the world.

I believe most in educated intuition, in what you get through profound experience.

Not wanting to see, not wanting to be in touch with one's experience is something akin to cognitive laziness, an eclipse of the experiencer or inner witnessing in the person.

You cannot describe truly what you are but you can enjoy and directly experience what you are. Therein lies the joy of existence.

All of us experience a gap between our minds and the reality of time—that's why we suffer.

Reality is the completion of experience.

The world ultimately is what we say it is.

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.