Quotes About Perception

Who am I then? The one who sees that. The awareness that is prior to thought, the space in which the thought—or the emotion or sense perception—happens.

Una palabra no es más que un medio para llegar a un fin. Es una abstracción. De forma parecida a un poste indicador, señala algo más allá de sí misma. La palabra miel no es miel. Usted puede estudiar y hablar de la miel todo el tiempo que quiera, pero no la conocerá realmente hasta que la pruebe. Después

When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought. A depth returns to your life. Things regain their newness, their freshness. And the greatest miracle is the experiencing of your essential self as prior to any words, thoughts, mental labels and images.

Thinking and consciousness are not synonymous. Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought.

O cuando se lave las manos, preste atención a todas las percepciones sensoriales asociadas con la actividad:

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?" 1

When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought.

Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind

How you are seen by others becomes the mirror that tells you what you are like and who you are. The ego's sense of self-worth is in most cases bound up with the worth you have in the eyes of others.

las personas no saben escuchar porque la mayor parte de su atención está ocupada en pensar. Prestan más atención a eso que a lo que la otra persona está diciendo

The present moment is sometimes unacceptable, unpleasant, or awful.

Designer labels are primarily collective identities that you buy into. They are expensive and therefore "exclusive." If everybody could buy them, they would lose their psychological value and all you would be left with would be their material value, which likely amounts to a fraction of what you paid.

Observa qué ocurre cuando, en lugar de considerar «mala» una experiencia, la aceptas internamente, le das un «sí» interno, dejándola ser como es.

When you confuse the ego that you perceive in others with their identity, it is the work of your own ego that uses this misperception to strengthen itself through being right and therefore superior, and through reacting with condemnation, indignation, and often anger against the perceived enemy.

As long as you are unaware of Being, the reality of other humans will elude you, because you have not found your own. Your mind will like or dislike their form, which is not just their body but includes their mind as well. True relationship becomes possible only when there is an awareness of Being.

If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves.

After you have tasted it, the word becomes less important to you. You won't be attached to it anymore. Similarly, you can talk or think about God continuously for the rest of your life, but does that mean you know or have even glimpsed the reality to which the word points? It really is no more than an obsessive attachment

Spiritual realization is to see clearly that what I perceive, experience, think, or feel is ultimately not who I am, that I cannot find myself in all those things that continuously pass away. The

Here is the key: End the delusion of time. Time and mind are inseparable. Remove time from the mind and it stops — unless you choose to use it.

Judgment is either to confuse someone's unconscious behavior with who they are or to project your own unconsciousness onto another person and mistake that for who they are. To relinquish judgment does not mean that you do not recognize dysfunction and unconsciousness when you see it. It means "being the knowing" rather than "being the reaction" and the judge.

Una creencia puede ser consoladora. Sin embargo sólo a través de su propia experiencia se vuelve liberadora.

Everything, a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being, is ultimately unknowable. This is because it has unfathomable depth. All we can perceive, experience, think about, is the surface layer of reality, less than the tip of an iceberg.

I didn't realize yet that thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.

Most people don't inhabit a living reality, but a conceptualized one.