“I like the idea that within the structure of the song, some kind of built-in improvisation keeps them fragile and in their moment, so that I'm not projecting so much, so that my perception of the song doesn't interfere with what its real body is. Sometimes it's like telling a story that I heard in passing, and I don't want it to become completely mine.” WantKindIdeasRealSometimesMomentsStoriesBodySongHeardMinesPerceptionBuiltStructurePassingPassingsFragileInterfereImprovisation Author:Ryan Adams
“Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the rationale for its institutions, rituals and power structure; and gives a map of the purpose and stages of life.” PeopleGivingStoriesPurposeMemoriesStagePerceptionInstitutionsStructureMetaphorMythMythologyAspirationMapsRitualRationaleStages Of Life Book:The passionate life: stages of loving Source: The passionate life: stages of loving
“The purpose of formulating [a] conflict as a game is not that of resolving the conflict by 'solving the game.' It is that of displaying the structure of the conflict and thereby exposing features of it that may be concealed by rhetoric. In particular, appreciation of the peculiar structure of some of the so-called mixed - motive conflicts represented nonzero-sum games may change the conflicting parties' perception of their situation.” MayPurposeGamesPartySituationParticularConflictPerceptionStructureAppreciationFeaturesMotivePeculiarRhetoricConcealedExposing Author:Anatol Rapoport
“If you read Calvin, for example, he says, How do we know that we are godlike, in the image of God? Well, look at how brilliant we are. Look how we can solve problems even dreaming, which I think is true, which I've done myself. So instead of having an externalized model of reality with an objective structure, it has a model of reality that is basically continuously renegotiated in human perception. I think that view of things is pretty pervasively influential in Protestant thought.” IfsThinkingKnowsHumansWellsLooksDoneProblemDreamRealityViewsExamplePerceptionModelsStructureSolveBrilliantObjectivesInfluentialProtestantsGod ImageGodlike Author:Marilynne Robinson
“What people need to see is this openness, not this church that is so built on structure and religious order that you can't be free and worship God and have a good time because we're so caught up in condemnation, 'I can't say this I can't wear this I can't do this because of this perception of what a Christian is and is not'. It's not about that. God says 'come as you are'.” PeopleNeedsI CanChristianOrderChurchReligiousPerceptionWorshipBuiltStructureCaughtGood TimesOpennessCaught UpHaving A Good TimeCondemnationWorship God Author:Robert Hood
“Music doesn't have to be so rule-based - and so strict in its structures, construction and perception.” PerceptionStructureConstructionStrict Author:Stephen Mallinder
“Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.” WholeShapesPerceptionStructureIdeologyEmbeddedDaily Experience Author:Christopher Lasch
“Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory perception is this ongoing interweavement: the terrain enters into us only to the extent that we allow ourselves to be taken up within that terrain.” WorldTakenPerceptionStructureVulnerableOngoingSensoryReciprocityRenderingTerrainSensuousAbramSensory Perception Book:Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology Source: Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
“Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally a vision-in the minds of those who built them. Society is where it is today because people had the perception; the images and the imagination; the creativity that the Arts provide, to make the world the place we live in today.” PeopleWorldMindFirstsArtTodayImaginationVisionCreativityTheoryPerceptionBuiltStructureCarpe DiemRocketsGeometryPyramidsCathedralsCarpeThermodynamics Author:Eugene S. Ferguson
“When all mental activity around who you think you are or what you need for happiness is stopped, there is a crack in the authority of perception, in the structure of the mind. I invite you to enter through that crack. Come in through that opening. When you do, the mind is no longer filled with its latest self-definition. In that moment, there is only silence. And in that silence, it is possible to recognize absolute fulfilment: the truth of who you are.” ThinkingMindSelfMomentsWisdomSpiritualSilenceActivityAuthorityPerceptionAbsolutesFilledStructureWho You AreDefinitionsOpeningThat MomentCracksInvitesFulfilment Author:Gangaji
“Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in a new manner under the influence of marijuana, and these apprehensions have remained valid in years of normal consciousness.” YearsCertainConsciousnessPiecesInfluenceNormalPerceptionStructureJazzWeedAestheticMarijuanaClassical MusicApprehensionCatalystCannabisFunny MarijuanaFunny WeedFunny Drug Author:Allen Ginsberg