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“As a human being you are capable of a higher level of perception than you may now be cognizant of. You are not really who you think you are. There are many selves inside you, not just one.”

Thinking Inspirational Humans May Self Human Beings Levels Buddhism Higher Perception Capable Just One Higher Level Cognizant

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You and I have that same power at our disposal every moment of the day. At the moment, the questions that we ask ourselves can shape our perception of who we are, what we're capable of, and what we're willing to do to achieve our dreams.”

Moments Dream Asks Achieve Willing Shapes Perception Capable Who We Are Our Dreams

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“I don't think that we are capable of anything like this many possible colour responses. Instead I argue that the perception of colour differences between two surfaces viewed side-by-side is a gestalt phenomenon.”

Thinking Two Sides Differences Perception Capable Response Surface Arguing Colour Phenomenon Gestalt

Author:David Papineau

“All of us live at the feeling level, and our feelings are in large part a result of the way we perceive things. You observe or are told something, you interpret it, and only then do you have a reaction at the feeling level. The point is that feeling is preceded by perception, and all of us are capable of controlling our interpretation [the associations and assumptions] of what we see. If we can control our interpretation, then it logically follows that we can exercise some control over our feelings as well.”

Ifs Way Wells Feelings Levels Results Exercise Gratitude Perception Capable Reactions Perceive Assumption Interpretation Association

Author:Michael LeBoeuf

“Beautiful women, wealth, sensations, celebrity, substances capable of distorting my perception, and even forcing my body into positions ready for the covers of important yoga magazines - I pursued them all, some wholeheartedly, but none would satisfy my real longing.”

Important Real Body Beautiful Wealth Position Ready Perception Capable Yoga Longing Magazines Substance Sensations Beautiful Women Pursued Wholeheartedly

Author:Rod Stryker

“Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart. Even if he says things that are full of wrong perceptions, full of bitterness, you are still capable of continuing to listen with compassion. Because you know that listening like that, you give that person a chance to suffer less.”

Ifs Knows Giving Heart Kind Persons Stills Helping Purpose Suffering Chance Compassion Listening Perception Capable Empty Bitterness Compassionate Continuing Deep Listening

Author:Nhat Hanh

“There's an all-enveloping destructiveness in Donald Trump's character and in his psychological tendencies. But I've focused on what professionally I call solipsistic reality. Solipsistic reality means that the only reality he's capable of embracing has to do with his own self and the perception by and protection of his own self. And for a president to be so bound in this isolated solipsistic reality could not be more dangerous for the country and for the world. He's not psychotic, but I think ultimately this solipsistic reality will be the source of his removal from the presidency.”

Thinking World Mean Country Character Reality President Dangerous Perception Capable Protection Focused Psychological Psychotic Removal

Author:Robert Jay Lifton

“The claim that democracy and efficiency are contradictory is nonsense. That's evident in the history of democracy itself, because it is only democrats who were and continue to be capable of learning from mistakes. A more appropriate question is to ask whether a country like China, which has been so incredibly successful economically, is actually inefficient in light of its environmental destruction and its corruption. In China's perception, however, the democratic model is doubtlessly inferior.”

Country Mistake Democracy Successful Perception Capable Destruction Democratic Democrat Environmental Corruption Nonsense Efficiency Contradictory Learning From Mistakes

Author:Sigmar Gabriel

“The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.”

Knows Mind Humans Doe Beauty Perception Capable Dignity Violent Excitement Human Mind Application Gross Stimulants Perception Of Beauty

Book:Lyrical Ballads

Source: Lyrical Ballads

“But when the group is literally capable of changing our perceptions, and when to stand alone is to activate primitive, powerful, and unconscious feelings of rejection, then the health of these institutions seems far more vulnerable than we think.”

Thinking Feelings Seems Powerful Groups Perception Capable Institutions Vulnerable Rejection Unconscious Primitive Stand Alone Activate

Book:Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Without total freedom, every perception, every objective regard, is twisted. It is only the man who is totally free that can look and understand immediately. Freedom implies really, doesn't it, the total emptying of the mind. To completely empty the whole content of the mind — that is real freedom.”

“A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation”

Persons Goal Religious Doubt Objects Perception Capable Foundation Rational No Doubt Significance Science And Religion Science Religion Religious Person

Book:Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.”

Art Difficult Imagination Novel Perception Capable Complexes Boldness

Book:The Common Reader

Source: The Common Reader

“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.”