Quotes About Perception

it is the awareness that is of primary importance, no matter what the objects are that we are paying attention to.

We tend to see more through our thoughts and opinions than through our eyes.

Rarely are we in touch with who is doing the doing—or, put otherwise, with the world of being. To

When you see and feel the sensations you are experiencing as sensations, pure and simple, you may see that these thoughts about the sensation are useless to you at that moment and that they can actually make things worse than they need be.

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. R. D. LAING

TRY: Asking yourself in this moment, "Am I awake?," "Where is my mind right now?

Awareness requires only that we pay attention and see things as they are. It doesn't require that we change anything.

known. If you are completely preoccupied with what is already known, you can't make the leap into that other dimension of creativity or imagination or poetry, or whatever it is that allows for seeing a hidden order in things which, until it is seen and realized, it isn't seen at all.

We can feel victimized by our thoughts, or blinded by them. We can easily mis-take them for the truth or for reality when in actuality they are just waves on its surface, however tumultuous they may be at times.

Non-doing simply means letting things be and allowing them to unfold in their own way.

we have got to pause in our experience long enough to let the present moment sink in; long enough to actually feel the present moment, to see it in its fullness, to hold it in awareness and thereby come to know and understand it better.

vemos ciertas cosas, pero que también, al mismo tiempo, quizás no vemos las más importantes.

Thought doesn't wrap around awareness. Awareness wraps around thought.

Time past and time future Allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time Ã¢â'¬Â¦ You

This is the case because, as we noted earlier, it is not the breath that is most important here, but the awareness itself. And the awareness can be of any aspect of your experience, not just your breathing—because it is always the same awareness, whatever the chosen object or objects of attention.

This has everything to do with holding the present moment in its fullness without imposing anything extra on it, perceiving its purity and the freshness of its potential to give rise to the next moment.

It is remarkable how liberating it feels to be able to see that your thoughts are just thoughts and that they are not "you" or "reality." For instance, if you have the thought that you have to get a certain number of things done today and you don't recognize it as a thought but act as if it's "the truth," then you have created a reality in that moment in which you really believe that those things must all be done today.

if I can perceive myself as transparent or empty, then what comes toward me can go through me and out the door.

The present is the only time that we have to know anything. It is the only time we have to perceive, to learn, to act, to change, to heal, to love.

Either wherever you go there you are or wherever you go there you aren't.

look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.

Dr. Lown's story graphically illustrates the enormous power that strongly held beliefs, which are in actuality just thoughts, can have on our health.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts…. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?

If Christians always seemed to be the most intelligent and the most righteous of men, I'd be a skeptic.