“What we see in this world is a gross abnormality. The human consciousness fails to perceive the very simple, divine nature of every atom in every moment.” WorldHumansMomentsHumanitySimpleConsciousnessFailingThis WorldDivineBuddhismPerceiveAtomsGrossHuman ConsciousnessDivine NatureAbnormality Author:Frederick Lenz
“If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal stars so far away that even the most powerful telescopes fail to reveal them to the naked eye. In a similar way, time and concentration allow the intellect to perceive a ray of light in the darkness of the most complex problem.” IfsWayProblemLightEyeScienceHeavenStarsHoursPowerfulDarknessFailingComplexesIntellectFocusedNakedPerceiveConcentrationMost PowerfulRaysExposedFar AwayPlatesLensesTelescopesDarkness To LightRays Of LightComplex ProblemsNaked Eyes Book:Advice for a Young Investigator Source: Advice for a Young Investigator
“One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it.” KnowsLosesFailingOriginalsCaughtPerceiveDescription Author:Dalai Lama
“The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.” MayPurposePerfectFailingMortalsPerceiveAlmightyErringGod Knows Best Book:Lincoln on Democracy Source: Lincoln on Democracy
“The danger is that we may fail to perceive life's greatest meaning, fall short of its highest good, miss its deepest and most abiding happiness, be unable to render the most needed service, be unconscious of life ablaze with the light of the Presence of God - and be content to have it so - that is the danger. That some day we may wake up and find that always we have been busy with the husks and trappings of life - and have really missed life itself.” MayHas BeensLightFallFailingMissingDangerNeededHighestWake UpBusyPerceiveUnconsciousAbidingPresence Of God Author:Phillips Brooks
“In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch. Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing. The result of our thinginess is our blindness to all reality that fails to identify itself as a thing, as a matter of fact.” MatterFactsRealityEyeSpaceResultsFailingFingersSensesSubstancePerceiveDaily LifeBlindnessMatter Of FactSpelling Book:Insecurity of Freedom Source: Insecurity of Freedom
“We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no proper conceptions.” DifferencesFailingAppreciateSuperiorsPerceiveMeritConceptionInferiorsSuperiority Author:James F. Cooper
“Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this.” ThinkingMenMindWonderVirtueFailingPerceiveInverted Author:Gautama Buddha