Quotes About Perception

I believe there is something else entirely going on but no single person can ever know it, so we fall in love.

As if you could TELL time without injuring eternity.

Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses how wide is that we gain from other sources.

The human beings I know are mostly wonderful people, but they often fail to distinguish clearly between what they worked for and the good things that came their way. They also are not so good at seeing the difference between the character flaws of other people and bad things that happen to them.

Spinoza tells us that we do not desire or detest things because we judge them to be good or evil; we judge them good or evil because we desire or detest them.

Before one can learn truth, one must unlearn lies.

The truth is always greater than the words we use to describe it.

We can never comprehend the depths of gloom of night in the light of day".

Love is always partly a misunderstanding';

For a moment she knew exactly what he was thinking, not just about Tom, but about her, and himself, and all of life, and she liked the way he saw things. She could spend her life tuning into the calming frequency of his thoughts. He wasn't a stiff, and he wasn't a weakling either. What was the word for it? Sensitive was the only one that came to mind, amazing as that was to consider; he was a sensitive man. He soaked up whatever you gave him.

There's more that's happened than what's in your memory.

She wanted a man whose trunk was thick but whose bark was thin, who flowered beautifully, even if only for her.

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

Images, similars, signs, correspondences, and coincidences infer a different way to look at the world; they give rise to a different kind of knowledge.

It is easier to study books and "objective facts" than to develop one's subjective life, senses, perceptive abilities, and method of thinking.

in its deepest sense, suffering is intimately linked to a misapprehension of the nature of reality. R

the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

change, even a tiny one, in the way we manage our thoughts and perceive and interpret the world can significantly change our existence

Para el enamorado, una mujer bella es un objeto de deseo; para el eremita, una distracción; y para el lobo, un buen bocado.

It's said that the Buddha's enlightenment is great than that of a traveler setting out, in the same proportion as the heavens are bigger than what can be seen of them through the eye of a needle. But in both cases, what you see is the sky.

lasting happiness is boring because it is always the same, while suffering is more exciting because it is always different.

When you see a great black cloud in a stormy sky, it seems so solid that you could sit on it. But when you approach it, there's nothing to grab on to; it is only vapor and wind. The experience of anger is like having a high fever. It is a temporary condition, and you do not need to identify with it. The more you look at anger in this manner, the more it evaporates under your gaze, like white frost under the sun's rays.

Dividimos el mundo entero en "deseable" e "indeseable", concedemos permanencia a lo que es efímero y percibimos como cualidades autónomas lo que en realidad es una red infinita de relaciones que cambian sin cesar.