Quotes About Perception

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

What a liberation to realize that the "voice in my head" is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

All problems are illusions of the mind.

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?

Being must be felt. It can't be thought.

Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn't very much.

Man made God in his own image...

every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.

Become conscious of being conscious.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.

Life isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be.

In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

You are awareness, disguised as a person.

The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality

Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn't very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by the vocal cords. They are the vowels a, e, i, o, u. The other sounds are consonants produced by air pressure: s, f, g, and so forth. Do you believe some combination of such basic sounds could ever explain who you are, or the ultimate purpose of the universe, or even what a tree or stone is in its depth?

Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind.

Carl Jung tells in one of his books of a conversation he had with a Native American chief who pointed out to him that in his perception most white people have tense faces, staring eyes, and a cruel demeanor. He said: "They are always seeking something. What are they seeking? The whites always want something. They are always uneasy and restless. We don't know what they want. We think they are mad.

That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

The mind unconsciously loves problems because they give you an identity of sorts.

What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now.

Man Made 'God' in his own image. The eternal, the infinate, the unnameable was reduced to a mental idol that you had to believe in and worship as 'my god' or 'our god'.