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“Mysticism is concerned primarily with moving our awareness field from the beginning of the band of perception, the human band, up to the enlightened bands of perception.”

Humans Moving Awareness Fields Buddhism Band Perception Concerned Enlightened Mysticism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I am concerned about ageism and the loss of beauty - the perception that as you grow older, you 'lose your looks,' which I think is diabolical.”

Thinking Looks Grows Loses Loss Perception Concerned Diabolical Ageism

Author:Erin O'Connor

“Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.”

Perception Concerned Experience Vulgar

Book:Proust

Source: Proust

“For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.”

World Way Doe Used Language Perception Concerned Relation Property Phenomenal Corresponding

Book:Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka

Source: Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka

“The perception that Donald Trump has softened on immigration or is about to soften on immigration has some on the right concerned that he could lose support among his most loyal base of supporters, though he`d been drawn to his hard-line positions on immigration early in the campaign.”

Hard Loses Lines Support Position Trump Perception Concerned Campaigns Immigration Loyal Supporter

Author:Steve Kornacki

“In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don't think about music. They're not concerned with it. They don't take their musical legacy seriously.”

People Thinking Culture Term Perception Concerned Musical Legacy

Author:Alan Bishop

“For the strategies of deception are concerned with deceiving an opponent through the logistics of perception. But these strategies are not merely aimed at the Serbs or the Iraqis but also at all those who might support [Slobodan] Milosevic or Saddam Hussein.”

Might Support Perception Concerned Strategy Deception Opponents Deceiving Saddam Hussein Logistics

Author:Paul Virilio

“Everyone in the Lotus Eaters is so concerned with appearances, but there's an emptiness under the surface that they're trying to ignore. We talked about the theme of perception versus reality a lot with mirrors and masks what people were wearing - and we shot on two formats; we shot it on film and on digital, and a lot of the night-time scenes are film, and it looks better, and people can put on a mask and they can go out there and show an artifice to the world.”

People World Trying Reality Film Scene Perception Concerned Appearance Emptiness Mask

Author:Alexandra McGuinness

“You can never know if a person forgives you when you wrong them. Therefore it is existentially important to you. It is a question you are intensely concerned with. Neither can you know whether a person loves you. It’s something you just have to believe or hope. But these things are more important to you than the fact that the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees. You don't think about the law of cause and effect or about modes of perception when you are in the middle of your first kiss.”

“Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces. It is concerned with the perception part of thinking. This is where we organise the external world into the pieces we can then 'process'.”

Thinking World Process Change Pieces Perception Concerned Seeking Lateral Thinking

Author:Edward de Bono

“The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that they make in space is as bound up with them as might be their colour or smell ... Therefore the painter must be as concerned with the air surrounding his subject as with the subject itself. It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.”

Giving Persons Feelings Might Given Wish Space Air Subjects Effects Objects Painting Perception Concerned Bounds Smell Flesh Painter Observation Atmosphere Colour Register Auras

Author:Lucian Freud