Quotes About Perception

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

Your biggest fantasy is walking away from the life (they think) you lead.

The period of earthly life in your greater existence is similar to the 15 minutes of fame you get down here...Everyone gets to share you in a different way. And both are dreams.

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye

Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will.

A sign of growing old is when interviewers start asking you,What would you do differently if you had your life to live over again? I give some sort of answer because I dont wish to be rude, but I dont tell them the image that comes into my mind because they would think it vain and frivolous, and no one wants to be a subject for ridicule. I see myself as a tall, skinny Fellini, vigorously lifting weights. Thats what I would do differently. I would lift weights.

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief

The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs

If it weren't for our illusions we'd be free from deceptions, and life free from any interests.

Life is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have a half a one for breakfast.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.

I will find humor in my everyday life by looking for people I can laugh at.

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.

When life life does not find a singer to sing her heart, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior.

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.