Quotes About Perception

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

Attention is primordial intelligence, consciousness itself.

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.

most humans see only the outer forms, unaware of the inner essence, just as they are unaware of their own essence and identify only with their own physical and psychological form.

As you grow up, you form a mental image of who you are, based on your personal and cultural conditioning. We may call this phantom self the ego. It consists of mind activity and can only be kept going through constant thinking.

The awareness that is prior to thought, the space in which the thought—or the emotion or sense perception

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

the "normal" state of mind of most human beings contains a strong element of what we might call dysfunction or even madness.

The emotion is the relative truth of your state of mind at that time. Watch the emotion. You are the watcher, not the emotion.

It is no so much that you use your mind wrongly - you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion.

Mi mente no puede conocerlo a usted, sólo etiquetas, juicios, hechos y opiniones sobre usted. Sólo el Ser conoce directamente.

Most ancient religions and spiritual traditions share the common insight—that our "normal" state of mind is marred by a fundamental defect.

Both abundance and scarcity are inner states that manifest as your reality.

You can become aware of awareness as the background to all your sense perceptions, all your thinking.

What you think of as the past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now.

Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time — past and future — the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

In most ancient cultures, people believed that everything, even so-called inanimate objects, had an indwelling spirit, and in this respect they were closer to the truth than we are today.

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.

how "spiritual" you are has nothing to do with what you believe but everything to do with your state of consciousness.

how "spiritual" you are has nothing to do with what you believe but everything to do with your state of consciousness. This, in turn, determines how you act in the world and interact with others.

The eternal, the infinite, and unnameable was reduced to a mental idol that you had to believe in and worship as "my god" or "our god.

What you refer to as your 'life' should more accurately be called your 'life situation'. Your life situation exists in time. Your life is now. Your life situation is mind stuff. Your life is real.

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. The awareness that is prior to thought, the space in which the thought—or the emotion or sense perception—happens.

Stupidity is relatively harmless, but intelligent stupidity is highly dangerous.