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“Our surroundings are not contained by name and form. You are neither the body nor the mind, these are limits you identify with through a lack of clear-sightedness. When you are attentive to a tree or flower, the perception, shape, name and concept are not the only things present. There is also the All-presence that you share with them and that you are both part of. The very name and form spring forth from this eternal background, the All-presence. This is instantaneous awareness that cannot be reached by thought.”

Mind Body Form Names Clear Tree Share Awareness Flower Shapes Limits Eternal Perception Spring Concepts Backgrounds Surroundings Instantaneous

Book:Neither This nor That I Am

Source: Neither This nor That I Am

“The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.”

Form Joy Perception Precise Lucidity

Author:Eva Hoffman

“There is but one power which heals—that is God. The state or condition through which the healing takes place is the confidence of the heart. By some this state is reached through pills, powders, and physicians. By others through hygiene, fasting, and prayer. By others through direct perception.”

Heart States Prayer Healing Conditions Perception Direct Heal Physicians Pills Fasting Powder Hygiene

Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“Monks, we who look at the whole and not just the part, know that we too are systems of interdependence, of feelings, perceptions, thoughts, and consciousness all interconnected. Investigating in this way, we come to realize that there is no me or mine in any one part, just as a sound does not belong to any one part of the lute.”

Knows Way Looks Doe Whole Feelings Sound Realizing Consciousness Mines Perception Monk Interdependence Interconnected Investigating

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Autism isn't something a person has, or a shell that a person is trapped inside. There's no normal child hidden behind the autism. Autism is a way of being. It is pervasive; it colors every experience, every sensation, perception, thought, emotion and encounter - every aspect of existence. It is not possible to separate the autism from the person – and if it were possible, the person you'd have left would not be the same person you started with.”

Ifs Way Children Persons Left Emotion Behinds Existence Color Normal Perception Aspect Encounters Sensations Trapped Shells Autism

Author:Jim Sinclair

“I am a teacher at heart. My goal is to inspire and energize audiences with ideas and possibilities that will challenge them to expand their perceptions of teaching and learning and dare to consider our professional future with optimism and excitement.”

Heart Ideas Goal Challenges Audience Teacher Teaching Possibility Inspire Perception Optimism Dare Excitement Teaching And Learning

Author:David Warlick

“Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.”

Social Movement Perception Majors Experience Landscape Permanent Fades Social Movements

Author:Freda Adler

“Your perceptions are derived from your feelings and your ability to be yourself, to own and trust yourself, and to say what you feel, even when it may be diametrically opposed to everyone eles's opinion. You may be called the Devil Incarnate. You may feel like cow pies are being thrown at you. Sometimes that is part of being true to yourself.”

Feels May Sometimes Feelings Ability Opinion Perception Devil Being True Being Yourself Thrown Cows Pie Trust Yourself Be True To Yourself True To Yourself

Book:Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living

Source: Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living

“Many of you would like to take evil and step on it, destroying it like you would a bug. Squish, smash! Begone into another reality! This practice of eliminating human life because it is perceived as evil does you no good. In the end your history and experience are filled with war of one kind or another; humans fighting one another for the right to speak their truth and share their perception.And one human or another is always wanting to suppress someone else's ideas, someone else's thinking.”

Source: Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living

“Everything that enters our field of perception means something, large or small. Everything speaks to us, if we will take off our headphones and hear a different sound track. Everything corresponds. We travel better in the forest of symbols when we are open and available to all the forms of meaning that are watching†and waiting for us.”

Ifs Mean Different Form Speak Waiting Sound Fields Perception Track Available Forests Symbols Headphones

Book:The Three

Source: The Three

“Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.”

Men Humans Art Matter Feelings Pleasure Perception Art Is Human Life Reasonable Organs Amusement Solace

Book:WHAT IS ART? & WHEREIN IS TRUTH IN ART? (Meditations on Aesthetics & Literature): On the Significance of Science and Art, Shakespeare and the Drama, The Works of Guy De Maupassant, A. Stockham'sTokology, Amiel's Diary, S. T. Seménov's Peasant Stories, Stop and Think!...

Source: WHAT IS ART? & WHEREIN IS TRUTH IN ART? (Meditations on Aesthetics & Literature): On the Significance of Science and Art, Shakespeare and the Drama, The Works of Guy De Maupassant, A. Stockham'sTokology, Amiel's Diary, S. T. Seménov's Peasant Stories, Stop and Think!...

“Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.”

Mind Looks States Facts Perception Mirrors State Of Mind

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.”

Mind Kind Situation Perception Theater Infinite Philosopher Variety Posture

Book:A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Source: A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

“Everything begins as an internal reality and then is externalized through perception.”

Reality Success Perception Internals

Author:Christopher Langan

“Everything is Spirit - in essence, though hidden in manifestation. If you had the perception, you would see God in everything.”

Ifs Spirit Perception Essence Manifestation

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“Before perception, before a preceiver, existence was - is. This is the consciousness that we refer to as nirvana, God, eternity.”

Existence Consciousness Perception Eternity Taoism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection.”

Thinking Feels Mind Moments Memories Brain Perception Connections Complexes Smell Setting Settings Recognition Going To Work Odor Polling Old Memories

Author:Lewis Thomas

“If it is widely assumed that the new President cannot move forward simply because of a narrow victory, there can easily develop a sense of unease and uncertainty, adversely affecting every sector of American society, our economy and the perception of other nations.”

Ifs Moving Nations President Economy Victory Perception Moving Forward Uncertainty Keep Moving Keep Moving Forward American Society Perception Of Others

Author:Richard V. Allen

“All thinking, knowing, perception, space-time, occur in consciousness. You are a non-local consciousness. The world is in you.”

Thinking World Time Space Consciousness Knowing Perception Locals Space Time

Author:Deepak Chopra

“The 2014 election has given the GOP the rare opportunity to retroactively redeem its brand. The conventional perception, incessantly repeated by Democrats and the media, is that Washington dysfunction is the work of the Party of No. Expose the real agent of do-nothing. Show that, when Harry Reid can no longer consign House-passed legislation to oblivion, Congress can actually work.”

“To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.”

World Memories Perspective Perception Our Memories Incomplete Selective Perception Of The World

Author:Claude Simon

“In our business, except in media buying, there are few economies of scale. Client perception of creative agencies is that the bigger they are, the worse they are.”

Economy Creative Media Perception Bigger Scales Advertising Agency Buying Clients

Author:Martin Sorrell

“We feel certain that the extraterrestrial message is a mathematical code of some kind. Probably a number code. Mathematics is the one language we might conceivably have in common with other forms of intelligent life in the universe. As I understand it, there is no reality more independent of our perception and more true to itself than mathematical reality.”

Feels Kind Reality Might Form Certain Universe Language Common Numbers Perception Messages Intelligent Mathematics Independent Aliens Mathematical Code Ufo Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life

Author:Don DeLillo

“To argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep's perception is probably limited by lowly sheepish perceptions, is no more to the point than if I were to slaughter and eat you on the grounds that I am a sophisticated personality able to enjoy Mozart, formal logic and cannibalism, whereas your imaginative world seems confined to True Romances and tinned spaghetti.”

“Simply notice that you're aware. At any given moment, you can choose to follow the chain of thoughts, emotions, and sensations that reinforce a perception of yourself as vulnerable and limited, or to remember that your true nature is pure, unconditioned, and incapable of being harmed.”

Moments Inspiration Remember Given Emotion Practice Meditation Pure Perception Chains Vulnerable Sensations Incapable True Nature Meditation Practice Yoga Practice Meditation And Yoga Yoga Meditation

Author:Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

“Birth Matters... It matters because it is the way we all begin our lives outside of our source, our mother's bodies. It's the means from which we enter and feel our first impression of the wider world. For each mother, it is an event that shakes and shapes her to her innermost core. Women's perceptions about their bodies and their babies' capabilities will be deeply influenced by the care they receive around the time of birth.”

Source: Birth Matters: How What We Don't Know About Nature, Bodies, and Surgery Can Hurt Us

“You shape your perceptions, or someone shapes them for you. You do what you want to do, or you respond to someone else's plan for you.”

Want Inspirational Plans Shapes Perception What You Want

Book:Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement

Source: Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement

“Philosophy exists in profoundest opposition to rhetoric, which is speaking for the sake of producing or controlling some effect in others' perceptions. Philosophy is about the caustic or cauterizing effect of the truth, not the currying of sensibilities.”

Philosophy Truth Effects Perception Sake Opposition Rhetoric Sensibility Caustic

Author:Kenny Smith

“Truth is never negative. Only one's perception of it is.”

Truth Truth Is Perception Negative

Author:Joseph Curiale

“Our perceptions of truth are built around what is practical, not what is true. Even the smartest human brain doesn't have the capacity for discerning true facts. That's why so many of us settle for scientific facts. It's the best we can do.”

Humans Facts Reality Truth Can Do Brain Perception Built Capacity Practicals Settling Human Brain Discerning Scientific Facts True Fact

Author:Scott Adams

“It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.”

Wells Known Journey Strange Perception Ordinary Aspect Well Known

Author:Kenneth Koch

“I moved down the street like a cloud of awareness following a body that seemed simultaneously familiar and foreign. There was an incomprehensible attachment to that body, although it no longer felt like "mine". It continued to send out signals of its sensory perception, yet how or where those signals wwere being received was beyond comprehension.”

Body Felt Consciousness Streets Awareness Mines Perception Moved Clouds Following Familiar Attachment Signals Comprehension Sensory Sensory Perception

Author:Suzanne Segal

“In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.”

Difficult Youth Quiet Perception Patience Filmmaker Complexity Incapable Undertakings Subtlety

Author:Wesley Morris

“When my father finally got around to teaching me to drive, he was impressed at my "natural" talent for driving, not knowing that I had already been secretly driving my mother's car around the neighborhood. When I took the test and got my license and my father gave me my own set of keys to the car one night at dinner, it was a major rite of passage for him and my mother. Their perception of me had changed and was formally acknowledged. For me the occasion meant a private sanction to do in public what I had already been doing in secret.”

“Do we choose to see possibilities? Do we really believe that they're there? Perception controls our reality, and if we don't believe it, we won't see it.”

Ifs Believe Reality Possibility Perception Don't Believe Celebration

Author:Dewitt Jones

“This one question-'What do I know for certain?'-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your whole sense of self, and it's meant to. You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, beliefs, and opinions-things that you believe because you were taught or told they were true. Until we start to see these false perceptions for what they really are, consciousness will be imprisoned within the dream state.”

Source: The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment

“He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.”

Giving Memories Perception Impression Quintessence

Book:The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Ten Volumes: Literary and political addresses

Source: The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Ten Volumes: Literary and political addresses

“But any perception of this application being speeded up requires me to take responsibility.”

Responsibility Perception Take Me Application Taking Responsibility

Author:David Blunkett

“When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.”

Leadership Morning Depends Perception Expectations Disappointment Setting Settings Monday Monday Morning

Book:Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss

Source: Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss

“A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.”

World One Thing Perception Metaphor Organs Ornaments

Author:Neil Postman

“Thinking... is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas”

Thinking Ideas Eye Sound Perception Ears Perceive Colour Organs

Book:The Way of Initiation

Source: The Way of Initiation

“When the spirit most closely approaches the physical earth, then we have the perception of fragrance.”

Earth Spirit Perception Approach Fragrance

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“And I don't care what else anyone has ever told you, the Sun is white, not yellow. Human color perception is a complicated business, but if the Sun were yellow, like a yellow lightbulb, then white stuff such as snow would reflect this light and appear yellow-a snow condition confirmed to happen only near fire hydrants.”

Source: Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

“We pursue modernity in her incessant metamorphoses yet we never manage to trap her. She always escapes: each encounter ends in flight. We embrace her and she disappears immediately: it was just a little air. It is the instant, that bird that is everywhere and nowhere. We want to trap it alive but it flaps its wings and vanishes in the form of a handful of syllables. We are left empty-handed. Then the doors of perception open slightly and the other time appears, the real one we were searching for without knowing it: the present, the presence.”

“We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves.”

Saws Judgment Perception Criticism Critics

Author:Pauline Kael

“Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result, one ought to pay attention to the undemonstrated assertions and opinions of experienced and older people, or of the prudent, no less than to demonstrations, for, because the have an experienced eye, they see correctly.”

People Ends Eye Results Pay Attention Opinion Ought Perception Concern Intellect Arise Pay Attention Demonstration Assertion Prudent Older People Nicomachean Ethics

Author:Aristotle

“The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various 'individuals', or groups of 'individuals', experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their "pursuit of happiness" to outright obliterating it.”

America Individual Differences Issues Groups Perception Impact Various Arguing Pursuit Pursuit Of Happiness Misperception

Author:Aberjhani

“Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.”

Consciousness Perception Negative Triumph Postmodernism Constructivism

Book:Marx via process: Whitehead's potential contribution to Marxian social theory

Source: Marx via process: Whitehead's potential contribution to Marxian social theory

“Our perception of space alters the space. It is consciousness that finds meanings in all spaces”

Space Consciousness Perception Find Me

Author:Tarthang Tulku

“The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He feels more like a prime-mover, more self-determined (rather than caused, determined, helpless, dependent, passive, weak, bossed). He feels himself to be his own boss, fully responsible, fully volitional, with more "free-will" than at other times, master of his fate, an agent.”

Source: Toward a Psychology of Being