Quotes About Perception

No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.

It's easier to be God than to see God.

What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?

Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.

I'd like to imagine I won't end up in Hell, but I think I've done too much acid and listened to too much death metal to sit on a cloud next to God with angels floating above my head.

I'm officially middle-aged. I don't need drugs anymore, thank God. I can get the same effect just by standing up real fast.

God speaks in the language you know best - not through your ears, but through your circumstances.

All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?

God will never violate His Word, but He doesn't seem to mind violating our understanding of His Word.

If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.

That higher awakening is called God-consciousness. In that condition, you will see that all the objects of the world are your own universal self.

God alone is real, and all else is illusion.

In the course of time one does not feel even the existence of God. After attaining enlightenment one sees that gods and deities are all Maya.

God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.

Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.

According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something I'm listening to God.

The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.

The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept God.

The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for what they really are - tinny and unconvincing lies.

Faith, like sight is nothing apart from God. You might as well shut your eyes and look inside, and see whether you have sight as to look inside to discover whether you have faith.

If the perfect Son of God is unattractive to you, then obviously you are an unattractive person.

In the heart of any pious Jew, God is a Jew. Is your God an Englishman or an American?