Quotes About Perception

Weeds are luckier than flowers because they are not killed for their beauties!

When a crow says an intelligent thing, chickens may laugh at it. This is the laughing of the sand castles at the powerful waves!

You can look at the world from a mountain or from a rat hole! Most people do the second!

You missed the shadow of the hawk on the vole if you think how wonderfully free a vole is!

Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it.

Women are much more sensitive. We know that emotionally but their organs respond to the same degree.

Soft margins and wide peripheries unfocused, I don't give form to my appreciation, but sit quietly with a quality of blossoms that feels like light.

A woman has to look good, but a man—a little bit nicer looking than a monkey is enough.

Tizrah split each fig and gave one half to me while she bit into the other half. She explained that every fig tastes different from the next, even if they grew on the same tree. "Meshulam told me it isn't nice if someone gets a good fig and someone else gets a rotten one, so you have to split every fig between the people eating them.

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

The eye in which I see God is the same eye in which God sees me. My eye and God's eye are one seeing, one knowing, and one loving.

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.

W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.

Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see.

Now, you might say: how can this be? I cannot feel his presence in any way. Listen to this. Sensing his presence is not in your power but in his. He will show himself when it suits him to do so, and he can also remain hidden if that is his wish. This is what Christ meant when he said to Nicodemus: 'The spirit breathes where it will: you hear its voice but do not know where it comes from, or where it is going' (John 3:8).

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me...

You should be like those who at all times watch and wait for their Lord' (Luke 12:36). Truly, such vigilant people are alert and on the watch for their Lord for whom they wait; they look to see if he is not by chance concealed in what befalls them, however strange it may be to them.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time.

If his accusers charged Eckhart with heresy, then he charged them with stupidity.

God is equally near to everything and every place and is equally ready to give himself, so far as in him lies, and therefore a person shall know him aright who knows how to see him the same, under all circumstances.

Listening leads us more inside ourselves whereas seeing leads us more outside—the work of seeing itself, that is. And, therefore, we will be far more blessed with eternal life by the power of listening than by the power of sight. The act of listening allows me to hear the eternal Word spoken with me, whereas sight leads me astray, to what is outside myself. In listening, I suffer (or allow); in seeing, I work.

A day, whether six or seven years ago or whether six thousand years ago, is just as near to the present as yesterday. Why? Because all time is contained in now.

they do him wrong who take God just in one particular way. They take the way rather than God' (Sermon 19).