There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
Perception Quotes
Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
A perception cannot be “wrong” – your senses are just doing their job. If you genuinely saw pigs fly, it doesn’t matter whether the pigs were actually caught in a whirlwind, or you were watching an animated cartoon, or you were asleep and dreaming. Your perception was true. On the other hand, if you preach […]
Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.
There is no reality; only perception.
It’s just what usually happens is propaganda from the right is perceived as actuality, and propaganda from the left is perceived as propaganda.
The eye of wealth is elevated towards higher stations, and seldom descends to examine the actions of those who are placed below the level of its notice, and who in distant regions and lower situations are struggling with distress, or toiling for bread. Among the multitudes overwhelmed with insuperable calamity, it is common to find […]
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. Circumstances and situations do color life but you have been given the mind to choose what […]
There comes into my mind such an indescribable, infinite, all-absorbing, divine, heavenly pleasure, a sense of elevation and expansion, and I have naught to do with it. I perceive that I am dealt with superior powers. This is a pleasure, a joy, an existence which I have not procured myself. I speak as a witness […]
Among those who have endeavoured to promote learning and rectify judgment, it has long been customary to complain of the abuse of words, which are often admitted to signify things so different that, instead of assisting the understanding as vehicles of knowledge, they produce error, dissension, and perplexity, because what is affirmed in one sense […]
