“Certain drugs provide brief excursions into altered states of consciousness. The problem is that the perceptions and understandings that come from these experiences don't tend to last.” StatesProblemLastsCertainUnderstandingConsciousnessBuddhismBalanceDrugPerceptionAlteredStates Of ConsciousnessExcursionsAltered StatesAltered States Of Consciousness Author:Frederick Lenz
“It is always wise, particularly in the beginning, to balance your new intuitive and psychic understandings with good old common sense. A good psychic perception follows your common sense.” UnderstandingCommonWiseSeeingBalancePerceptionCommon SensePsychicsIntuitive Author:Frederick Lenz
“Mature art, I think, emerges when there's a certain balance of tensions, when there's neither neurotic prostration nor cold rationality, but an aura of energy and a drive to grasp personal "truths" still emerging into perception. To grasp and to shape them.” ThinkingArtStillsCertainEnergyColdBalanceShapesPerceptionTensionMatureRationalityNeuroticEmergingAurasProstrationPersonal Truth Book:The cow jumped over the moon: the writing and reading of poetry Source: The cow jumped over the moon: the writing and reading of poetry
“The problems of the global economy are not based in perception, but in the reality of prices, balance sheets and income statements, vast concentrations of wealth and power, precarious systemic imbalances, ruthless exploitation, and command economies mismanaged by Central State/Bank policy and manipulation.” StatesProblemRealityWealthEconomyPolicyBalancePerceptionIncomeStatementsCommandConcentrationManipulationExploitationSheetsRuthlessGlobal EconomyImbalancePrecariousBalance SheetsConcentration Of WealthCommand Economy Author:Charles Hugh Smith
“I believe that gut feelings, the sense of balance, and spatial self-perception are so firmly coupled to our biological body that we will never be able to leave it experientially on a permanent basis.” BelieveSelfFeelingsBodyAbleI BelieveBalancePerceptionBasesPermanentGutsGut FeelingsSpatialSelf Perception Author:Thomas Metzinger
“The big difference is, as a man, I can go to a bar at two in the morning and people will be like "He's just a fun guy! That's cool that he can balance all these things." But if you see a person that you know who has two young kids and is a mom, there's no way those perceptions are the same. It's like "Oh, there must be a problem." That's usually what women face.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenWayPersonsI CanTwoProblemBigsKidsFacesYoungGuyFunDifferencesMorningMomBalancePerceptionBars Author:Robert Greene
“Bigotry doesn't care about state or regional lines. It's all over the place. But fortunately there are also really excellent human beings all over the place, too. So it's about perception and balance sometimes I think.” ThinkingSometimesCareBalancePerceptionExcellentBigotry Author:Adrian Matejka
“What is fantastic for me is that the Romantic movement comes out as a counter balance to everything that has been accumulating since the Age of Reason. I think the downfall of imagination as a genre or as a perception starts with the Age of Reason, which says everything else that came before us, all those superstitions, all those myths, are childish.” ThinkingReasonAgeImaginationBalancePerceptionMythFantasticDownfall Author:Guillermo del Toro
“We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's done the opposite to me. Life is in perfect balance. It's just that our perception of it isn't.” BelieveDoneLife IsFoundPerfectEnemyBalancePerceptionOppositesDiminishPerfect Balance Author:Queen Rania of Jordan