Quotes About Perception

Durante miles de años, los varones han visto a las mujeres no como éstas podían ser, sino exclusivamente como ellos querían que fueran.

Unfortunately, it makes as little sense to offer this kind of explanation as to say that we have become too "civilized " to eat insects or horses.

Yeshua said, Whoever has come to know the world has discovered a carcass, and whoever has discovered a carcass, of that person the world is not worthy.

receiving knowledge means truly to come into being, to be manifested, whereas those who remain in error do not really exist at all

One who does not stand in the darkness cannot see the [134] light.

Jesus said, "When you see your likeness, you are happy. 2) But when you see your images that came into being before you and that neither die nor become visible, how much you will bear!

In this world there is good and evil, but the good of the world is not really good and the evil of the world is not really evil. After this world there is evil that is really evil: this is called the middle. The middle is death.

Know what is in front of your face, and what is hidden from you will be disclosed to you. For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed.

People cannot see anything that really is without becoming like it.

The attendants of the bridal chamber have only one name, and that is rest. When they are together, they need no other form, [for they are in] contemplation…perception. They are superior…among those in…the glories of glories….

Since she did not know the truth, she assumed a fashioned figure and prepared, with power and in beauty, a substitute for truth.

You never realize what a good girl means untill you Know a bad girl .

Most people—even Christians—have unthinkingly exposed themselves to so much deception that they do not even realize they are being deceived.

Basically it means there is no one correct view of the universe. We each see things from our own frame of reference.

Intuition guides us and the wise person listens.

How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?

Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.

Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours.

Love does not last forever, then?" "He asked me the same thing this morning," she said. "No, it does not - not love that has been betrayed. One realizes that one has loved a mirage, someone who never really existed. Not that love dies immediately or soon, even then. But it does die and cannot be revived.

But my basic premise is that our mental, cultural template for a powerful person remains resolutely male. If we close our eyes and try to conjure up the image of a president or – to move into the knowledge economy – a professor, what most of us see is not a woman.

More interesting is another cultural connection this reveals: that unpopular, controversial or just plain different views when voiced by a woman are taken as indications of her stupidity. It is not that you disagree, it is that she is stupid: 'Sorry, love, you just don't understand.

Si no percibimos que las mujeres están totalmente dentro de las estructuras de poder, entonces lo que tenemos que redefinir es el poder, no a las mujeres.