Quotes About Perception

A 45-year old looks a lot like a 25-year old who's been out all night. And feels just as good about having survived the experience.

I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so.

That's really a very different experience: You don't have to look to be understood. You're already understood.

Without identical twins, you'll never get to experience entering a hotel room with one of them and watching him run into the full-length mirror because he though he saw his brother.

I think you just have to be realistic to what the reality is, the way people experience movies.

We get to experience the same thing in very different ways with different parts of ourselves.

I really want to make physical things so that the experience is a real experience and not just conceptual.

Judgment is forced upon us by experience

Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any.

What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in the mathematical sense.

[The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss.

We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.

When your ideas about yourself change, so does your experience.

I was having an out-of-body experience, it was so hot. I felt I was watching someone play in a blue dress, and it wasn't me.

The kundalini is the energy that opens up the bands of perception. It is also the power that allows us to travel mentally from one dimension to another, from one experience to another.

Several hours later, I heard my mother calling me to come into the house, and it never occurred to me that this was an experience that other children didn't have on a regular basis.

The result of your not listening to your experience is that you keep re-living it, over and over again.

My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time.

What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!

You need your reason to pass through the world and also to experience the nagual, because if you become all nagual, we'll lock you away in an institution.

We live inside our mind. That's all there is. Everything that you experience is not external, it's internal. All your experiences are predicated upon your awareness field.

One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction.

Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.

German people are essentially pacifists. Many still remember the experience of World War II. And they may not have seen Saddam Hussein as evil a person as a lot of other people have.