Quotes About Perception

Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.'

For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.

If the ox could think, it would attribute oxality to God.

Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light. What else did Malebranche mean when he spoke of "seeing all things in God"? Existence is a mystery because the light of it is inexhaustible.

After all, if it comes to that, there is really neither Ogun nor Jesus! There are only mystified forms of our consciousness.

If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of.

Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.

God looks at the heart, and we shouldn't judge by appearance . . . but we still live on the earth, and everyone here looks at the exterior, because only God sees the interior.

God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him.

You search for God, and seek to find Him here. Or you seek to find Him there. Why need you to look in the corners of the room when He entirely fills the room?

We may be in the dark about what God is *doing*, but we are not in the dark about God.

You believe God is not there, but He is, Hidden in the secret of the divine mystery

The very scary thing about religion, to me, is that people actually believe God is who they think He is.

Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.

I thought it was very elegant, a wonderful opening. The vegans seemed so surprised-God knows what they get to eat.

There are times when I get through the day by looking around the office and thinking, 'My God, aren't the natives here strange.'

When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.

I don't want people to think I believe in God.

We are looked upon by God as though we were in eternity; God dwells in eternity, and does not view things as we do.

Perhaps we are all too small-minded to glimpse creation, even out little corner of it.

No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.

Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.

He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.

Clients have no trouble paying $5,800 for an hour in a Gulfstream corporate jet or $425 for a month of parking. But God forbid they spend $3 per on a glossy annual report.