Quotes About Perception

There are times in every life when the past acquires a particular resonance, when we grow sensitive to sounds and voices normally beyond the range of hearing. The past shades into present always and everywhere, but only rarely do we acknowledge the process; only rarely does some trigger force us to recognize ourselves as citizens of that frontier.

I was a boy, and I believed deeply in the sightedness of horses. I believed that there was nothing that they did not witness. I believed that to have a horse between my legs, to extend my pulse and blood and energy to theirs, enhanced my vision. Made of me a seer. I believed them to be the dappled, sorrel, roan, bay, black pupils in the eyes of God.

We own nothing in our lives but perspective.

It freaks me out a little bit. In my humanness, if I had been challenged in such a manner, with Satan saying, "If you believe your God is strong enough to save you, why don't you just jump," I would have felt an obligation to prove God accurate. But that is not what Christ did. Because Christ did not lean on a few choice Scriptures that supported His life perception.

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.

Time slips by; our sorrows do not turn into poems, And what is invisible stays that way.

You want to get a good look at yourself. You stand before a mirror, you take off your jacket, unbutton your shirt, open your belt, unzip your fly. The outer clothing falls from you. You take off your shoes and socks, baring your feet. You remove your underwear. At a loss, you examine the mirror. There you are. You are not there.

A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is like to be. It allows us to have the life we are denied because we are too busy living. Even more paradoxically, a poem permits us to live in ourselves as if we were just out of reach of ourselves.

Will the same day ever come back, and with it Our amazement at having been in it, or will only a dark haze Spread at the back of the mind, erasing events, one after The other, so brief they may have been lost to begin with?

by being both here and beyond I am becoming a horizon from "The Man in the Mirror

In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.

She stood beside me for years, or was it a moment? I cannot remember. Maybe I loved her, maybe I didn't. There was a house, and then no house. There were trees, but none remain. When no one remembers, what is there? You, whose moments are gone, who drift like smoke in the afterlife, tell me something, tell me anything.

In another time, What cannot be seen will define us, and we shall be prompted To say that language is error, and all things are wronged By representation. The self, we shall say, can never be Seen with a disguise, and never be seen without one.

The problem for some people is when [motivational] speakers put out a consistently positive message it can be off-putting, and they start to feel like the speakers aren't relatable anymore.

The world doesn't work like this, he tried to tell himself. The world is not sick and evil like this.

Pino shrugged. "Maybe he liked the sound of it. Pino Lella." Mimo snorted. "You do live in a fantasy world." They

Faith clearly means 'to move forward without knowing.' But for the last 300 years at least it's meant 'to know every-thing with certainty.' How has a word come to mean the exact opposite of what is originally meant?

Spirituality is about seeing, waking up out of a deep sleep, remembering what

"Classic": A book which people praise but don't read.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.