Quotes About Perception

If you take people to be what they think themselves to be, you will only hurt them as they hurt themselves so grievously all the time. But if you see them as they are in reality, it will do them enormous good.

Things are as they are and nobody in particular is responsible. The idea of personal responsibility comes from the illusion of agency.

Awareness is ever there. It need not be realized. Open the shutter of the mind and it will be flooded with light.

When the shadow is seen to be only a shadow, you stop following it. You turn around and discover the sun which was there all the time - behind your back!

See everything as emanating from the light which is the source of your own being. You will find that in that light there is love and infinite energy.

Reality is not the result of a process; it is an explosion.

S?owa tworz? ?wiaty. Rzeczywisto?? jest cisz?.

Without my sense of being, what is the value of the world?

On the verbal level everything is relative. Absolutes should be experienced, not discussed.

prior to consciousness,

The whole point about 'romance' is that the woman is somehow always smaller, more diminutive in a cute sort of way, while the man is adult.

This entire system functions on the assumption that women do housework for love .

There's always something fishy about the French.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

It's a sad reflection on society how many people are shocked by honesty... and how few by dishonesty.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

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Art exists not inside the piece itself, but inside the mind of the viewer.

people can say all kinds of things without ever opening their mouths...

It is the job of the human brain to assemble all the input of our world—sights, sounds, smells—into a coherent narrative. This is what memory is, a carefully calibrated story that we make up about our past.

Where the average person appreciates the beauty of surf and waves, Gus, an engineer, sees only practical design. Gravity, plus ocean current, plus wind. Poetry to the common man is a unicorn viewed from the corner of an eye—an unexpected glimpse of the intangible. To an engineer, only the ingenuity of pragmatic solutions is poetic. Function over form. It's not a question of optimism or pessimism, a glass half full or half empty. To an engineer, the glass is simply too big.

We choose our reality, you see, just as we choose our god.

mortal man. He saw a being

In the absence of facts, we tell ourselves stories.