Quotes About Perception

Jesus only appeared to people who believed in him. Answer: the accounts make it clear that Thomas and Paul do not belong to this category; and actually none of Jesus's followers believed, after his death, that he really was the Messiah, let alone that he was in any sense divine.

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which boils down in popular discourse to saying that the very act of observing things changes the things you observe, works just as well, worryingly, when you look in the mirror.

on. And then we catch a glimpse—or was

Thus (a) understanding the world, (b) understanding reality, and (c) understanding myself all threaten to collapse into a morass, a smog of unknowing, of not even knowing what "knowing" itself might mean.

But if Christians don't get Jesus right, what chance is there that other people will bother much with him?

Anyone who supposes that, because a church has officially renounced some doctrine, nobody thereafter will hold to it, has little experience of real church life.

The more oppressed a group perceives itself to be, the more it will want to calculate when liberation will dawn.

He was not the king they expected.

Beauty, like justice, slips through our fingers. We photograph the sunset, but all we get is the memory of the moment, not the moment itself. We buy the recording, but the symphony says something different when we listen to it at home.

Many of the questions we ask God can't be answered directly, not because God doesn't know the answers but because our questions don't make sense. As C.S. Lewis once pointed out, many of our questions are, from God's point of view, rather like someone asking, "Is yellow square or round?" or "How many hours are there is a mile?

The victorious ones have said That emptiness is the relinquishing of all views. For whomever emptiness is a view, That one has achieved nothing.

if wanderers were not themselves the cause, then like the scent and color of the lotus in the sky, there would be no perception of the universe.

Without recourse to the conventional The ultimate cannot be shown

All the dogmatists have been terrified by the lion's roar of shunyata. Wherever they may reside, shunyata lies in wait! Nagarjuna: Master of Wisdom: Writitngs of the Buddhist Mastar Nagarjuna

To whomever emptiness is possible, All things are possible.

Porque todo es vacuidad, todo puede ser.

17. Error does not develop In one who is in error. Error does not develop In one who is not in error. 18. Error does not develop In one in whom error is arising. In whom does error develop? Examine this on your own!

Inasmuch a real mover does not move, and a non-mover does not move, apart from a mover and a non-mover, what third thing could move?

Motion does not begin in what has moved, nor does it begin in what has not moved, nor does it begin in what is moving. In what, then, does motion begin?

Doing a good job at work will make some of the coworkers and customers think that you're a hard-worker.

I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.

A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it.

Modesty and decency dwell in the mind, not in a burka.

What those women do in the name of literature. It gives reading a bad name.