Quotes About Perception

One truth doesn't refute another. Truth doesn't lie in the object, but in how we see it.

Behold the power of the truth. When people see its shadow on the wall, they don't want to take the time to look away.

She told the truth as she saw it, and she died for it. I came along for the ride, and I lived. It wasn't worth it. But it was the truth, and it was what had to happen.

If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful.

OK, you're alive. How aware are you, of anything? Can you see eternity? Do you live in the land of the perpetually happy?

There's a different film being made in every mind. And of course, the star of the film is the mind, the personality, the self.

The final result of all life is your awareness. Your awareness is existence.

We see very few people who are satisfied. They say that the only ones who are really happy are the enlightened or the fools.

As a human being you are capable of a higher level of perception than you may now be cognizant of. You are not really who you think you are. There are many selves inside you, not just one.

The world won't necessarily change but your understanding of it will, and therefore the world will change. Your attention will no longer be confined to the physical body and the physical world.

No one sees life like you do, because you are no one. You change constantly, like the light outside the window.

When we are very young children we know how to feel. It's innate. But as we lead a lifetime, we pick up so many thoughts, impressions, feelings, and ideas, that our sensitivity goes away.

The average person just sees through their senses. The world is filled with wonderful mysteries and beauty. You need personal power to open up all of that, without it - these are just words.

Words are deceptive. You think you understand something because it's explained to you and now you are under no obligation to do anything because you understand it.

As a sensitive person around other people, you feel their desires, you feel their angers, and you feel their frustrations. You begin to believe that these desires, angers, and frustrations are yours.

I've lived in worlds where there are three or four suns. We had incredible sunsets, beautiful. But they weren't more beautiful than here, if my mind is more beautiful in each life.

Everything depends on your state of awareness. If your state of awareness is low, then all the material success in the world won't help.

You have been programmed, brainwashed to see life in very specific forms. Life is endless and we are a body of perception. We are an awareness that is endless. The universe is only perception.

The world appears solid to most people. It is filled with their pain, their desires, their private ecstasies, their expectations. They are that world - nothing glows.

We sit here on the oasis of human consciousness and the verbal plane trying to talk about something that we just have to go and see and do and feel.

Enlightenment is already there inside us and all things. All we have to do is get something out of the way that is causing us not to see that.

If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.

We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.