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Quotes About Perception

The ears are better listeners than the tongue.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The highest wisdom is sometimes found in the lowest people.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
They don't think it be like it is, but it do.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Those who truly know you see your tears even in the rain.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
What you pour into your mind you pour into the world.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When a caterpillar looks in the mirror, he sees a butterfly.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You become what you think, not what others think of you.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot wake up one who refuses to open his eyes.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You need several eyes to see an opportunity, many eyes to see wisdom, and countless eyes to see God.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
How still it is! Stinging into the stones, The locusts' trill.
~ Unknown
Not knowing the name of the tree, I stood in the flood of its sweet scent.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Pausing between clouds the moon rests in the eyes of its beholders
~ Matsuo Bash?
???? ?????? ??? The deep Stillness Seeping into the rocks The voice of the Cicadas
~ Matsuo Bash?
Come, see real flowers of this painful world.
~ Matsuo Bash?
This snowy morning That black crow I hate so much. . . But he's so beautiful!
~ Matsuo Bash?
It is only a barbarous mind that sees other than the flower, merely an animal mind that dreams of other than the moon.
~ Matsuo Bash?
But unless things are seen with fresh eyes, nothing's worth writing down.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Moon almost full I'm thirty-nine a child still
~ Matsuo Bash?
In my new robe/This morning-/Someone else
~ Matsuo Bash?
Lightning – heron-cry stabs darkness.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Silencio la voz de la cigarra parte las rocas
~ Matsuo Bash?
Dragonfly can't decide which blade of grass to land on
~ Matsuo Bash?
Not knowing The name of the tree, I stood in the flood Of its sweet smell.
~ Matsuo Bash?
I don't know which tree it comes from, that fragrance.
~ Matsuo Bash?