Quotes About Perception

Just because we talk slow doesn't mean we think slow, others point out. On the East Coast they seem to think there's something funny about riding around in a pickup truck. Well in the Deep South, we don't think it's all that natural to hurdle through the dark in a crowded subway.

The first thing the therapist asked me was, 'Are you here because you're depressed?' I said, 'Not at all--I'm here because I'm Southern.'" Anne Herndon

Just seems more complicated than other people. This complex human being may be at once "more naive and more knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and rigorous logic. He or she is both more primitive and more cultured, more destructive and more constructive, occasionally crazier, and yet adamantly saner than the average person.

All books are judged by their covers until they are read.

In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, "Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.

But when the seesaw of good fortune sinks downward for one person, it is very often on its way up for someone else. This little-known law of physics is called the Fulcrum of Fortune, and although most people prefer to think of fortune as a wheel that spins, the fulcrum (that is, seesaw) is a more accurate depiction for most of us, since the worse our own luck becomes, the more likely we are to notice the good fortune of those around us and brood about the injustice of it all.

Listen to the fleshbody," the dropwort retorts. "A mere seventeen turns of the seasons on this ancient earth of ours, and yet he dismisses us.

Most often they speak according to their kind – the deep rumble of oak, the whisper of the birch, or the singsong chant of the alder. The evergreen stands of pine have voices sharp as needles. But the forest can speak as one, when it must. When the trees so choose, they think with one mind. When there is danger, especially, they speak in one voice of a thousand echoes. I hate it when they do this. For the forest mind is always right, and will hear no argument.

Agatha Swanburne - "All things look different close up.

My for example is woofs.

I see biscuit!" "No, I see biscuit!" "Giddy-yap, giddy-yap, Rainbowooooo

All instruction is but as a finger pointing to the moon; and he whose gaze is fixed upon the pointer will never see beyond.

If you don't acknowledge the bad side of things, bad things don't even exist. Only divinity exists.

The environment and circumstances given to you now constitute the world you have long depicted in your mind and heart; they represent an evolution of the world you have envisioned. People often think that other people and the society are to blame for every event that takes place around them, but that is not the case. Every event that evolves around you is made from the vibrations of your thought.

Nature does not change, although the way of viewing nature invariably changes from age to age.

Emptiness is not a mere emptiness, but rather fullness in which the distinctiveness of everything is throughly realized.

Of course, we all know that water is transparent and has no taste, smell, or color. What's amazing about water is that it is able to show us myriad "faces" depending upon the condition it is in or the information it is given.

She's strong! And scary...I bet she's single...I'd put money on it..

She's strong! And scary...I bet she's single...I'd put money on it..

People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That's how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be "correct" or "true"? Merely vague concepts… Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?

In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous. That reality could be an illusion. All humans live with the wrong assumptions. Isn't that another way of looking at it? That sharingan how much can you really se?

Zwei Seiten Eines läßt sich nicht bestreiten: Jede Sache hat zwei Seiten. — Die der andern, das ist eine, Und die richtige Seite, deine.

When something cannot be described, it does not become a fact of shared reality.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.