Best perception & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Perception is the ability to be conscious of self and that which is other than self. Without thinking about it, a distinction is made between who we are and what we perceive.”

Thinking Made Self Ability Awareness Buddhism Perception Conscious Perceive Who We Are Distinction

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self is the perception of perception. Beyond self there's no perception of perception.”

Self Awareness Buddhism Perception

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is the experience of enlightenment, to be very aware of what lies beyond the boundaries of cognitive perception, reflection and self-awareness as seen by the personality.”

Self Lying Awareness Buddhism Personality Perception Enlightenment Reflection Self Awareness Boundaries Cognitive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

“It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.”

Self Easier Perception Deceiving

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“When you die you pass into inner worlds and continue to perceive. Death is not the dissolution of the self. Death is rather just a change in perception.”

World Self Death Dies Perception Perceive Inner World Dissolution

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.”

Self Ignorance Perception Twenties Intolerance Pathetic Egotism Assertion Dense Nineteen Pitiful Unconsciousness Opaque Chuckles

Book:Mark Twain's Letters

Source: Mark Twain's Letters

“Perfectionism is self-destructive simply because there is no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal. Additionally, perfectionism is more about perception - we want to be perceived as perfect. Again, this is unattainable - there is no way to control perception, regardless of how much time and energy we spend trying.”

Way Want Trying Self Motivational Energy Goal Perfect Perception Perfection Destructive Perfectionism Unattainable Time And Energy Self Destructive

Author:Brené Brown

“The whole objective universe is created, ordered, by our perception and by our sense of self.”

Self Whole Universe Perception Yoga Objectives Sense Of Self

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.”

Ideas Self Identity Ego Perception Yoga Transitory Bhakti Yoga False Perception

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In Globetrotter, David Albahari explores the consciousness of emigres from the former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Serbia, showing that while abroad, many of us are even more intensely preoccupied with our histories than we were while living in Yugoslavia. His narrative structured out of realistic details and perceptions with self-conscious meditation blending history, civilization and its discontents, and personal experience reaches a density and intensity akin to Krasznahorkai's and Thomas Bernhard's. An intensely idiosyncratic narrative, enjoyable and thoughtful.”

“Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong. However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man's perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency; that man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.”

Thinking Men May Self Motivation Fall Space Existence Perception Standards Regard Supreme Traps Equations Time And Space Inclination Self Centered Axioms Expediency

Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Unlike art, the consumption of fashion is not based primarily on knowledge or education but functions through visual awareness, a type of sensuality and perception of the corporeal self.”

Art Self Awareness Fashion Type Perception Function Sensuality Visuals Consumption

Book:Encyclopedia of clothing and fashion

Source: Encyclopedia of clothing and fashion

“Twentieth-century developments in science support a new animism. Developments in physics have led to a world of energetic events which seem to be self-moving and to behave in unpredictable ways. And recent studies in biology seem to demonstrate that bacteria and macromolecules have elemental forms of perception, memory, choice, and self-motion.”

Source: God and Religion in the Postmodern World: Essays in Postmodern Theology

“Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel.”

People Self Church Perception Conscious Folks Signals Self Conscious

Book:The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

Source: The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

“Canada may be fast-forwarding, jump starting, into a new pattern, a model of communication linkages, a civilization that is more than a grab for power and dominance, a place that could channel the fires of the global wirings, where political alliances are subject to electrical ebb and flow, and the alchemical cultivations of imagination and perception, of the self, could precail of the ideology of capital.”

“In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of self and the natural world, and her skillful use of that language. Whether she turns her attention to the act of eating an apricot 'the color of shame and dawn,' or to 'the omnipotence of light,' or to grief when 'All the greens of summer have blown apart,' her linking of unique images, her energetic wit and whimsy, her compassionate investment in life, always bring new pleasures and perceptions to the reader.”

“Self discovery doesn't not seek to bring you answers about your personal life or philosophically comfort you about life and death. What it does is bring you into reality as perception itself.”

Doe Self Reality Answers Comfort Perception Discovery Self Discovery Buddhist Life And Death Personal Life Cosmology

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What amazes me is how far some people will go to justify their behavior to themselves, just to preserve that self-perception.”

People Self Behavior Perception Preserves Justify Self Perception

Author:Christopher Golden

“The person who loves his life will lose it: it could not be otherwise, for to love one's life is a fundamental denial of God's sovereignty, of God's rights, and a brazen elevation of self to the apogee of one's perception, and therefore an idolatrous focus on self, which is the heart of all sin”

Heart Persons Self Life Is Loses Sin Focus Rights Perception Fundamentals Denial Sovereignty Elevation Brazen Sovereignty Of God

Author:D. A. Carson

“It is never the thing but the version of the thing: The fragrance of the woman not her self, Her self in her manner not the solid block, The day in its color not perpending time, Time in its weather, our most sovereign lord, The weather in words and words in sounds of sound.”

Self Poetry Time Sound Lord Color Poet Perception Versions Weather Block Sovereign Fragrance

Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

“As a mode of perception that often becomes a style of life, paranoia weaves around the vulnerable self or group an air-tight metaphysic and world view. Paranoia is an antireligious mysticism based on the feeling or perception that the world in general, and others in particular, are against me or us. Reality is perceived as hostile. By contrast, the religious mystic experiences the ground of being as basically friendly to the deepest needs of the self. That which is unknown, strange, or beyond our comprehension is with and for rather than against us.”

World Needs Self Feelings Reality Religious Views Groups Air Style Particular Strange Perception Vulnerable Friendly Mysticism Contrast Hostile Comprehension Mystic Paranoia World View

Author:Sam Keen

“We can conceive a thinking being to have either many or few perceptions. Suppose the mind to be reduced even below the life of anoyster. Suppose it to have only one perception, as of thirst or hunger. Consider it in that situation. Do you conceive any thing but merely that perception? Have you any notion of self or substance? If not, the addition of other perceptions can never give you that notion.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Mind Self Situation Perception Notion Hunger Substance Thirst Oysters

Book:A Treatise of Human Nature: Illustrated

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature: Illustrated

“Adolescents, for all their self-involvement, are emerging from the self-centeredness of childhood. Their perception of other people has more depth. They are better equipped at appreciating others' reasons for action, or the basis of others' emotions. But this maturity functions in a piecemeal fashion. They show more understanding of their friends, but not of their teachers.”

“Don't try to change the world. First, change yourself or rather, your self-perception, and you find the world automatically corresponding to the level of your understanding. You will find that it has always been you who set the pace and depth of your experience by recognizing and honoring your true nature.”

World Trying Firsts Self Understanding Levels Perception Depth Changing The World Pace Recognizing True Nature Corresponding Change Yourself Self Perception Understanding You

Book:White Fire: Spiritual Insights and Teachings of Advaita Zen Master Mooji

Source: White Fire: Spiritual Insights and Teachings of Advaita Zen Master Mooji

“One has a more practical survival level, that's the mind function. The heart function obviously has an internal level that has to do with the quality of developing perceptions, feelings, the self. And the spirit level has to do with the pondering part of our lives.”

Mind Heart Self Feelings Spirit Levels Quality Our Lives Perception Survival Function Practicals Developing Internals Pondering

Author:Caroline Myss

“You expand your consciousness, your ideas, your perceptions. You break away from self-adopted restrictions. You grow as you learn to step aside from limiting conceptions and dogmas.”

Ideas Self Grows Consciousness Steps Break Perception Conception Dogma Adopted Restriction

Author:Seth

“The consistent finding of psychological research is that we are fairly accurate in our perceptions of others. It's our self-perceptions that are distorted because we look at ourselves in a rose-colored mirror.”

Looks Self Findings Perception Research Mirrors Rose Psychological Consistent Accurate Self Perception Perception Of Others Psychological Research

Book:The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

“The problem a lot of writers have is that they really, really enjoy people saying, "You're brilliant." They let their self-perception be dictated by reader response. But if you're going to let other people make you feel good, you're going to end up feeling bad when they say the opposite. You've got to be a cultural stoic. Then you won't be devastated by people who respond negatively. Of course, the downside is that it sort of stops you from being able to enjoy people liking your work.”

“...boredom is all about perception. It's a self-diagnosis, plain and simple. If you don't realize you're bored, you're not.”

Ifs Self Realizing Simple Perception Bored Boredom Diagnosis Plain And Simple

Author:Susan Maushart

“I think we start suffering as soon as we come out of the womb. I think that people tend to stereotype. When they think of suffering, they think of abuse - physical abuse, emotional abuse, poverty, that kind of thing. There's different levels of suffering. I don't think that it has to do with how much money you have - if you were raised in the ghetto or the Hamptons. For me it's more about perception: self-perception and how you perceive the world.”

“We talked about how easy it was to make the mistake of anthropomorphizing animals, and projecting our own feelings and perceptions on to them, where they were inappropriate and didn't fit. We simply had no idea what it was like being an extremely large lizard, and neither for that matter did the lizard, because it was not self-conscious about being an extremely large lizard, it just got on with the business of being one. To react with revulsion to its behavior was to make the mistake of applying criteria that are only appropriate to the business of being human.”

Humans Ideas Self Matter Feelings Easy Animal Mistake Fit Behavior Perception Conscious No Idea Appropriate Being Human Criteria Self Conscious Inappropriate Lizards Revulsion

Author:Douglas Adams

“Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future.”

Thinking Mind Self Remember Eternal Perception Ordinary Vivid Vividness

Author:Allen Ginsberg

“There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of idle thoughts. What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought we have either contributes to truth or to illusion.”

World Giving Self Whole Perception Illusion Concepts Whole World Idle Contradictory

Author:Gautama Buddha

“I believe that gut feelings, the sense of balance, and spatial self-perception are so firmly coupled to our biological body that we will never be able to leave it experientially on a permanent basis.”

Believe Self Feelings Body Able I Believe Balance Perception Bases Permanent Guts Gut Feelings Spatial Self Perception

Author:Thomas Metzinger

“To be politically activated is to dare to care about the happiness of others and that is just about the most important activity anyone can be involved in at this time, because it changes a person - it lifts them from normal self-centeredness to a state of other centeredness. That is a good thing because it expands our perception of self. This expansion of consciousness leads to enlightenment, which is the meaning of yoga.”

Persons Important Self States Care Consciousness Involved Activity Normal Perception Enlightenment Yoga Good Things Dare Lifts Expansion Self Centeredness Centeredness

Author:Sharon Gannon

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

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Book:Memories, dreams, reflections

Source: Memories, dreams, reflections

“Of course, no state accepts [that it should call] the people it is imprisoning or detaining for political reasons, political prisoners. They don't call them political prisoners in China, they don't call them political prisoners in Azerbaijan and they don't call them political prisoners in the United States, U.K. or Sweden; it is absolutely intolerable to have that kind of self-perception.”

People Should Kind Self States Reason Political Courses United Accepting United States Perception China Prisoner Sweden Self Perception Political Prisoners Azerbaijan Detaining

Author:Julian Assange

“We, especially those of us in depoliticized and pacified societies, need to cast a colder eye at our self-perceptions, now and in the past, as sentinels and embodiments of Enlightenment virtues of reason, dissent, and skepticism.”

Needs Self Reason Eye Past Virtue Perception Enlightenment Casts Skepticism Dissent Embodiment Self Perception Sentinels

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“We all put obstacles in our own path toward personal style, myself included. If we understood why we constructed these practical and emotional obstacles, we might move beyond it to healthier, happier perceptions of ourselves and, ideally, a better sense of self-esteem.”

Ifs Self Might Moving Path Style Self Esteem Emotional Perception Understood Obstacles Practicals Esteem Sense Of Self Personal Style

Book:The Truth About Style

Source: The Truth About Style

“Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.”

Humans Said Self Human Beings Consciousness Perception Illness Self Consciousness

Author:Virginia Woolf

“To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.”

Self Born Clear Atheism Talent Perception Catholic Unity Atheist Multiple Born Again Roman Catholic

Book:Armageddon?: essays 1983-1987

Source: Armageddon?: essays 1983-1987

“Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearranging one's perceptions and transforming one's self.”

Self Seems Political Possibility Offers Perception Activism Transforming Seductive Ordeals Rearranging Political Activism

Author:Tom Robbins

“He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception we rail against for a lifetime.”

Firsts Self Parent Perception Embrace Lifetime Defined Rail Stifling Characterization

Author:Kelly Corrigan

“Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by my first perception, and in which all absence is merely the obverse of a presence, all silence a modality of the being of sound, I enjoy a sort of ubiquity and theoretical eternity, I feel destined to move in a flow of endless life, neither the beginning nor the end of which I can experience in thought, since it is my living self who think of them, and since thus my life always precedes and survives itself.”

Source: Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings

“The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred.”

Self Body Faces Social Self Esteem Depends Perception Female Hatred Income Cures Imaginary Social Change Surgeons Self Hatred Self Perception Multiplying

Book:The Beauty Myth

Source: The Beauty Myth

“Though all three men faced the same hardship, their differing perceptions of it appeared to be shaping their fates. Louie and Phil's hope displaced their fear and inspired them to work toward their survival, and each success renewed their physical and emotional vigor. Mac's resignation seemed to paralyze him and the less he participated in their efforts to survive, the more he slipped. Though he did the least, as the days passed, it was he who faded the most. Louie and Phil's optimism, and Mac's hopelessness, were becoming self-fulfilling.”

Source: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

“Perhaps if we could popularise through the techniques of branding and consumerism, a different idea, a different narrative, perhaps the world can change. After all it changes constantly and incessantly, it's just the perceptions that we have are governed by people with self-interest and are not inalignment with the health and safety of us as individuals or as a planet.”

People Ifs World Ideas Different Self Individual Interest Planets Perception Safety Technique Narrative Branding Consumerism Self Interest Incessantly Different Ideas Health And Safety

Author:Russell Brand

“Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own.”

Self Feelings Perception Proof Emotional Intelligence

Book:Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

“Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It] is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality . . . a narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict.”

Humans Self Reality Human Beings Emotion Attitude Emotional Disease Perception Available Pity Addict Self Pity Narcotics Ignoble Incapacity Perception Reality Derelict

Author:Eugene H. Peterson

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