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“Life is perception. We perceive through different parts of the body of the universe.”

Different Body Life Is Universe Awareness Buddhism Perception Perceive Parts Of The Body

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You perceive yourself as being solid and physical, limited to a body. You are made up of light, endless mind. The way you see life is a limited state of mind.”

Way Mind Made States Body Light Life Is Awareness Buddhism Endless Perceive State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“God is one, supreme among gods and men, and not like mortals in body or in mind.The whole [of god] sees, the whole perceives, the whole hears. But without effort he sets in motion all things by mind and thought.”

Men Mind Whole Body Effort All Things Supreme Mortals Perceive Mind And Thoughts

Author:Xenophanes

“I look upon a good physician, not so properly as a servant to nature, as one, that is a counsellor and friendly assistant, who, in his patient's body, furthers those motions and other things, that he judges conducive to the welfare and recovery of it; but as to those, that he perceives likely to be hurtful, either by increasing the disease, or otherwise endangering the patient, he thinks it is his part to oppose or hinder, though nature do manifestly enough seem to endeavour the exercising or carrying on those hurtful motions.”

Source: Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry Into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature

“We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.”

Mind Body Strength Perceive Decay

Author:Lucretius

“Rather than protecting music as a sublimely meaningless activity that has managed to escape social signification, I insist on treating it as a medium that participates in social formation by influencing the ways we perceive our feelings, our bodies, our desires, our very subjectivities - even if it does so surreptitiously, without most of us knowning how. It is too important a cultural force to be shrouded by mystified notions of Romantic transcendence.”

Ifs Way Doe Important Feelings Body Desire Force Social Influence Activity Notion Mediums Perceive Meaningless Transcendence Formation Subjectivity

Author:Susan McClary