Quotes About Perception

Waking Early Sunday Morning," I sat "like a dragon on/time's hoard.

our culture tends to psychologize diseases it doesn't yet understand

My narrative is not a neat one. Which version of the story of my illness I tell depends on what month, what day, even what hour I do so, and whether my symptoms are in the background or the foreground.

Like many in their baby boomer generation, they saw doctors as unquestionable experts. You didn't go to them unless you had a high fever or a bad fall or a wound that needed stitching. In that case, you got a diagnosis, you took medicine or had surgery, and you got better, more or less in that order. But if the doctor told you nothing was wrong, nothing was wrong. My parents believed in the power of Western medicine, and therefore so did I.

Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily, La Rochefoucauld wrote.

All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged. What is meant by God-realization is to actually experience this important thing that the soul is eternal.

There are no divisions as such, but there is an appearance of separateness because of ignorance. This means that everything is of ignorance and that every one is Ignorance personified.

If drugs could make one realise God, then God is not worthy of being God. No Drugs! Many people in India smoke hashish and ganja, they colours and forms and lights and it makes them elated. But this elevation is only temporary, it is a false experience of illusion, and serves to take one further away from reality.

All those who experience the gross world as real are asleep. Only those who experience it as unreal can realise God and become awakened.

A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door.

A beautiful poem is like a beautiful sky and a beautiful sky is like a beautiful poem!

A beautiful road does not create enough reason to make a journey on that road, because the road to Hell is often a beautiful road as well!

A free horse where there is no man on its saddle always looks more beautiful than a slave horse with a man on its saddle!

A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's teeth.

A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!

A mad who knows that he is mad is not fully mad!

A royal garden is a very big place for slug, because slug is too slow, but it is small for a swallow which is too fast! Universe is a very big place for us simply because we are too slow! The day man becomes a swallow, universe will get smaller!

A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!

A wise quote may not be famous and a famous quote may not be wise! Stick to the wise as the other one is just a bubble!

All the donkeys I knew had small ears!

An innocent bird is not innocent from the insect's point of view! Only man can attain the rank of innocence through becoming a peaceful vegetarian!

An ordinary chair is always more comfortable than the king's chair!

An unfree mind is just like a windmill inside the bell jar!

Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one!