“I don't have an audience in mind when I write. I'm writing mainly for myself. After a long devotion to playwriting I have a good inner ear. I know pretty well how a thing is going to sound on the stage, and how it will play. I write to satisfy this inner ear and its perceptions. That's the audience I write for.” KnowsWritingMindWellsLongPlaySoundAudienceStagePerceptionEarsDevotionPlaywriting Author:Tennessee Williams
“It is not the eye that sees the beauty of the heaven, nor the ear that hears the sweetness of music or the glad tidings of a prosperous occurrence, but the soul, that perceives all the relishes of sensual and intellectual perfections; and the more noble and excellent the soul is, the greater and more savory are its perceptions.” SoulEyeHeavenGreaterPerspectivePerceptionIntellectualPerfectionEarsNobleGladSensualExcellentPerceiveSweetnessProsperousRelishTidingsSavoryEyes That See Author:Jeremy Taylor
“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.” EyeUniverseListeningPerceptionGloryConsciousEarsHarmonyWitnessMagnificence Author:Alan Watts
“Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so does a man develop in himself soul and spiritual organs of perception through which the soul and spiritual worlds are opened to him. For those who do not have such higher senses, these worlds are dark and silent, just as the bodily world is dark and silent for a being without eyes and ears.” MenWorldDoeSoulBodyEyeSpiritualProcessDarkHigherPerceptionEmpathyEarsSilentSensesOrgans Book:The Essential Rudolf Steiner Source: The Essential Rudolf Steiner
“The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.” MadeMomentsSeemsEyeFacesSpiritualityVoiceChurchHealingPerceptionEarsMiracleAfar Book:Death Comes for the Archbishop Source: Death Comes for the Archbishop
“What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages.” LanguageTalkingFocusListeningDependsPerceptionEarsInventingNot Talking Author:Philip Glass
“If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.” IfsNeedsHeartUseEyeUnderstandingKnowledgePerceptionIntellectualEarsInsightIntuitionIntellectTaoismWise Man Once SaidPierce Author:Zhuangzi
“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” ThinkingIdeasEyeSoundPerceptionEarsPerceiveColourOrgans Book:The Way of Initiation Source: The Way of Initiation