Quotes About Perception

Using one's own sexual mind as an infallible guide for inferring the sexual minds of others is an error.

To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.

I knew that the world around you is only uninteresting if you can't see what is really going on. The place you come from is always the most exotic place you'll ever encounter because it is the only place where you recognise how many secrets and mysteries there are in people's lives

Scarlet! It is the first colour I have seen in months. Or so it seems. Scarlet. A little wild poppy, of a red so sudden it made my blood stop. I kept saying the word over and over to myself, scarlet, as if the word, like the colour, had escaped me till now, and just saying it would keep the little windblown flower in sight.

I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.

The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.

The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).

The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.

We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.

It's not a lie. It's a gift for fiction.

Start seeing everything as God, But keep it a secret

Someone's opinion of you isn't reality... unless you decide to allow it!! You are who God says you are!!!

If you believe in Odin and Thor, people laugh themselves to death. While it's okay to believe in a man who turned water into wine, and walked on water

God only speaks to those who understand the language

It's better to see God in everything than to try to figure it out.

A comprehended god is no god.

I would hate for someone to look at my shoes and say, 'Oh my God! That looks so comfortable!'

God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.

Moses desired to see God; I do not desire to see God;He desires to see me

If God had wanted you to wear earrings, he'd have made you a girl.

The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do.

Most people do not let the Word of God get in the way of what they believe.

It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what 'tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.

Our souls should be like a transparent crystal through which God can be perceived.