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“If on one day we find the fast-spreading recognition of popular rights accompanied by a silent, growing perception of the rights of women, we also find it accompanied by a tendency towards a system of non-coercive education--that is, towards a practical illustration of the rights of children.”

Ifs Children Growing Rights One Day Perception Silent Practicals Tendencies Recognition Illustration

Book:Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed

Source: Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed

“While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.”

Prayer Practice Letting Go Perception Sacred Silent Priorities Noise Symbols Analyzing Centering Centering Prayer

Author:Thomas Keating

“I can hear those glances that you think are silent.”

Thinking I Can Communication Perception Silent Glances

Author:Jean Racine

“The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.”

Life Feels Mind Art Whole Facts Earth Sky Perception Silent Mood Cells Seats Nerves Harmonious Earth And Sky Beauty Of The Earth

Book:Metaphysical Bible Dictionary

Source: Metaphysical Bible Dictionary

“Dying is all about letting go and letting be, as is the awareness of God. People who have traveled far along the contemplative path are often aware that the sense of separation from God is itself pasted up out of a mass of thoughts and feelings. When the mind comes into its own stillness and enters the silent land, the sense of separation goes. Union is seen to be the fundamental reality and separateness a highly filtered mental perception.”

Source: Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation

“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.”

Men World Doe Soul Body Eye Spiritual Process Dark Higher Perception Empathy Ears Silent Senses Organs

Book:The Essential Rudolf Steiner

Source: The Essential Rudolf Steiner

“There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.”

Real Moments Shows Pleasure Perception Regard Victim Silent Bullying Bully

Author:Thornton Wilder

“I always thought death was cruel, a silent destroyer of breath, of hope, of life. Now I understand it is physical death, the perception of it, the fear of it, which often saves us; for death marks the end of our flesh causing us to question the future of what we are.”

Ends Perception Mark Breaths Silent Flesh Deep Thought Destroyers

Author:Stefanie Schneider