Quotes About Perception

I want them to see certain things. I want them to hear certain things. I want them to taste certain things.

we don't notice a single sign or display we pass until that mission is accomplished.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Isn't it true that there is a rare kind of person who perceives, as does a good dog, that life is doing something meaningful, and who discovers what it is and goes about doing it with a spirit of moderate hustle, and there is a not rare kind of person who perceives none of this and who goes about doing what is necessary in a spirit of aggrievedness?

People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.

You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.

My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.

Simply being born female in our society is to grow up being told your worth as a person is tied to how slim and attractive you are. Even for those of us lucky enough to have evolved parents, the message is still driven home by the world at large.

If, upon looking outwards towards the external expanse of the sky, There are no projections emanated by the mind, And if, on looking inwards at one's own mind, There is no projectionist who projects [thoughts] by thinking them, Then, one's own mind, completely free from conceptual projections, will become luminously clear. [This]

What is the difference between buddhas and sentient beings?' It is nothing other than realizing or not realizing mind. The substance of the awakened state, of buddha, is present within you, but you don't recognize it.

All phenomena of samsara and nirvana are your own mind.

It is entirely possible that you will feel attachment to or aversion for certain sense objects. Give that up. When you feel attachment towards something attractive or aversion towards something repulsive, understand that to be your mind's delusion, nothing but a magical illusion.

The Great Perfection I learned from my naturally aware mind. I have realized that all phenomena are like dreams, like magic.

The after-death state is very much like a dream state, and its dreams are the children of the mentality of the dreamer

However, in asymmetrical warfare, whether or not "demands" are met (i.e., whether you "win" or "lose" in the conventional sense) is secondary to perception of the intangibles in the globalized world of tweets and instantaneous information and disinformation. Hamas

I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.

Instead of seeing sickness as a problem, something to correct, we accept it as a fact of life. We've all agreed to this arbitrary set of rules that says sickness can't be escaped, illness is natural. Most

can't understand why an optimistic concept sounds so bizarre to most people.

we humans decide in advance how we're going to experience life, that we choose beforehand what we want to see.

the universe doesn't exist without a perceiver of that universe.") All

Our beliefs about ourselves and about the

In fact, in his book Prometheus Rising, Robert Anton Wilson

If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance." —ORVILLE WRIGHT, AMERICAN INVENTOR