Quotes About Perception

There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.

William Blake: "In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.

Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live.

Instead of fighting against the evidence of the senses you claim yourself to be that which you desire to be. As your attention is placed on this claim, the doors of the senses automatically close against your former master (that which you were conscious of being).

Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness.

The prophet said, "Be ye imitators of God as dear children." How would I imitate God? Well, we are told that God calls things that are not seen as though they were seen, and the unseen becomes seen. This is the way the girl called forth praise and kindness from her employer. She carried on an imaginary conversation with her employer from the premise that he had praised her work, and he did.

It is not what you want that you attract; you attract what you believe to be true.

Each assumption has its corresponding world. If you are truly observant, you will notice the power of your assumptions to change circumstances which appear wholly immutable.

If you judge after appearances, you will continue to be enslaved by the evidence of your senses. To break this hypnotic spell of the senses you are told, "Go within and shut the door." The door of the senses must be tightly shut before your new claim can be honoured. Closing the door of the senses is not as difficult as it appears to be at first. It is done with effort.

Consciousness follows vision, and I step into the vision and explore a world just as real as this.

The perfect man judges not after appearances; he judges righteously. He sees himself and others as he desires himself and them to be. He hears what he wants to hear.

If it is difficult to control the direction of your attention while in a state akin to sleep, you may find gazing fixedly into an object verN helpful. Do not look at its surface but into and beyond any plain object such as a wall, a carpet, or any other object \ hich possesses depth. Arrange it to return as little reflection as possible. Imagine then that in this depth you are seeing and hearing what you want to see and hear until your attention is exclusively occupied by the imagined state.

You never draw out of the deep of yourself that which you want; you always draw that which you are, and you are that which you feel yourself to be as well as that which you feel as true of others.

Your world in its every detail is your consciousness objectified.

Simon or the attribute of hearing.

Everything in the world bears witness of the use or misuse of man's inner talking.

The world was constructed in the mind's eye, out of things unseen by the mortal eye, and made alive by faith.

The consciousness of being is not dependent upon being anything. It preceded all conceptions of itself and shall be when all conceptions of itself shall cease to be. "I AM the beginning and the end." That is, all things or conceptions of myself begin and end in me, but I, the formless awareness, remains forever.

The ninth disciple is called James the son of Alphaeus. This is the quality of discernment, A clear and ordered mind is the voice which calls this disciple into being. This faculty perceives that which is not revealed to the eye of man.

Time is ever conditioned by man's conception of himself. Confidence in yourself as determined by conditioned consciousness always shortens the interval of time. If you were accustomed to great accomplishments, you would give yourself a much shorter interval in which to accomplish your desire than the man schooled in defeat.

Mientras el hombre continúe caminando en esta creencia de tristeza, seguirá caminando en un mundo de dolor y confusión, porque el mundo es, en cada detalle, la conciencia del hombre cristalizada.

Es la actitud mental que se debe adoptar antes de dormir. Descarta las apariencias y siente que las cosas son como deseas que sean, porque "Él llama cosas que no son vistas como si lo fueran y las no vistas como vistas" (Romanos 4:17)

You will from time to time know yourself to be many things, but you need not be anything to know that you are.

El subconsciente no origina ideas, pero acepta como verdad lo que la mente consciente siente como verdadero, y de un modo conocido sólo por el mismo, manifiesta las ideas aceptadas.