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“There have been people who have categorized the bands of perception in different yogic systems. It gives them pleasure to create names and orders and to make catalogs. Human beings like that.”

People Giving Humans Has Beens Different Order Names Human Beings Pleasure Awareness Buddhism Band Perception

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If literature is to transcend political interference and return to being a testimony of man and his existential predicament, it needs first to break away from ideology. To be without "isms," is to return to the individual and to return to viewing the world through the eyes of the writer, an individual who relies on his own perceptions and does not act as a spokesman for the people. The people already have rulers and election campaigners speaking in their name.”

“Rush hour brings out the worst in some people. They make faces, gesture, yell, call names, bump you with their car, and lean on their horn over the slightest perception that they are right and you are wrong. If you take any of these signals seriously, you can be hurt every time you drive. If you cannot crack a joke within a few minutes of rear-ending someone on the freeway, don't go out there.”

People Ifs Faces Names Hours Hurt Minutes Worst Car Perception Jokes Driving Cracks Gestures Signals Horns Bumps Freeways Rush Hour

Author:Jennifer James

“Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.”

Ideas Pain Names Emotion Perception Sensations Organize Syntax

Author:Mason Cooley

“Life is the path. Can the path be seen? Observe the path and you are far from it. Without observation how can one know they are on the path? The path cannot be seen, nor can it not be unseen. Perception is delusion; abstraction is nonsensical. Your path is freedom. Name it and it vanishes.”

Knows Life Is Names Path Perception Observation Delusion Unseen Abstraction Nonsensical

Author:Eric S. Nylund

“Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'”

Men Should Art Soul Artist Names Term Nature Perception Art Is Sacred Mere Senses Perceive Accurate Imitation Veils Reproduction

Book:The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings

Source: The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings

“I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.”

People Thinking Names Stuff Awareness Perception Cheer Shouting Premieres

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true. The first proposed that the earth, instead of being stationary, was moving around at a great and variable speed in a universe that is much bigger than it appears to our immediate perception. That proposal, I believe, was first made by Aristarchos two millenia ago ... Remarkably enough, the name Aristarchos in Greek means best beginning.”

“Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of ‘Green?’ How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?”

Source: Philip Taaffe: composite nature : a conversation with Stan Brakhage

“When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the perception that the sex instinct is God.”

Names Sex Perception Instinct Thelema

Book:The Equinox Vol. 3. No. 1.

Source: The Equinox Vol. 3. No. 1.

“The individuals inside are frequently fighting that their individual voices be heard, while the walls of the place, which are the mask, and the perception, are reluctant to give over to the voices of the individuals. Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance. Part of the identity of a place is the tension between those in the margins, and those in the center, and they all live behind the walls which wear the tradition.”

Giving Trying Fighting Names Individual Voice Behinds Heard Identity Wall Perception Tradition Distance Tension Mask Margins Always Trying Reluctant

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.”

Has Beens Made Helping Seems Names Differences Perception Enormous Admire Psychological Benevolence

Author:Joanna Trollope

“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