Quotes About Perception

There are two ways to live your life: one as though nothing is a miracle and the other as though everything is a miracle.

To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull facilities can comprehend only in the most primitive forms--this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the ranks of the devoutly religious men.

What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

Never underestimate your own ignorance.

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

If the Martians ever find out how human beings think, they'll kill themselves laughing.

Too many people are unaware that it is not outer events or circumstances that will create happiness; rather, it is our perception of events and of ourselves that will create, or uncreate, positive emotions.

Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought.

For many years now I have had the quaint idea that all humans-yes, the whole six billion of them on this planet-are out of their fucking minds.

People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.

Men are not disturbed by things, but by the views which they take of them

And each of the train's hundred windows had a face. Passing quickly, it became a strip of film so worked as film does: one continuous story formed, The Man of A Hundred Faces. I ran alongside, so slow (that trick of perception) I ran backwards. Finally, I was a child. I looked up in the movie theater I went to each Saturday afternoon, the screen like a window, and waved to the figure there, an old man at the station just as we pulled away." - The Story

I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.

By observing natural scientific discoveries through a perception deepened by meditation, we can develop a new awareness of reality. This awareness could become the bedrock of a spirituality that is not based on the dogmas of a given religion, but on insights into a higher and deeper meaning. I am referring to the ability to recognize, to read, and to understand the firsthand revelations.

I know LSD; I don't need to take it anymore. Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley .

Outside is pure energy and colorless substance. All of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.

I suddenly became strangely inebriated. The external world became changed as in a dream. Objects appeared to gain inrelief; they assumed unusual dimensions; and colors became more glowing. Even self-perception and the sense of time were changed. When the eyes were closed, colored pictures flashed past in a quickly changing kaleidoscope. After a few hours, the not unpleasant inebriation, which had been experienced whilst I was fully conscious, disappeared. what had caused this condition?

The danger of LSD lies not in its toxicity, but rather in the unpredictability of its psychic effects.