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“When you go into the planes of light, all of the incorrect ways of seeing and understanding life that you pick up are washed away.”

Way Light Understanding Meditation Seeing Buddhism Picks Planes Understanding Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Indian Art broadened my seeing, loosened the formal tightness I had learned in England's schools. Its bigness and stark reality baffled my white man's understanding... I had been schooled to see outsides only, not struggle to pierce.”

Men Art Reality School Understanding White Struggle Seeing England Indian Formal White Man Starks Pierce Schooled Baffled Stark Reality

Book:The Emily Carr Omnibus

Source: The Emily Carr Omnibus

“Experiences, much more than instruction, are a seeing with the inner eye - finding a channel to our essential inner life, a door to our deepest understanding wherein we have the capacity for universal response.”

Eye Understanding Seeing Doors Essentials Findings Capacity Universal Response Instruction Inner Life

Author:Lawren Harris

“It is always wise, particularly in the beginning, to balance your new intuitive and psychic understandings with good old common sense. A good psychic perception follows your common sense.”

Understanding Common Wise Seeing Balance Perception Common Sense Psychics Intuitive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“My mother took too much, a great deal too much, care of me; she over-educated, over-instructed, over-dosed me with premature lessons of prudence: she was so afraid that I should ever do a foolish thing, or not say a wise one, that she prompted my every word, and guided my every action. So I grew up, seeing with her eyes, hearing with her ears, and judging with her understanding, till, at length, it was found out that I had not eyes, ears or understanding of my own.”

Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825

“No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to other human activities. Instead, we recognize the exalted kind of seeing that leads to the creation of great art as an outgrowth of the humbler and more common activity of the eyes in everyday life. Just as the prosaic search for information is "artistic" because it involves giving and finding shape and meaning, so the artist's conceiving is an instrument of life, a refined way of understanding who and where we are.”

Source: Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye

“Commitment to the truth...means a relentless willingness to root out the ways we limit or deceive ourselves from seeing what is, and to continually challenge our theories of why things are the way they are. It means continually broadening our awareness. It also means continually deepening our understanding of the structures underlying current events.”

Way Mean Understanding Challenges Seeing Awareness Events Theory Limits Commitment Roots Structure Currents Insight Willingness Deceiving Relentless Current Events

Author:Peter Senge

“The use of online assessment tools is giving teachers a more fine-grained understanding of individual students' skills, and assisting them to determine the necessary next steps to enable them to achieve their own learning goals. We are seeing more effective differentiation in classrooms as a result.”

Giving Use Next Individual Understanding Goal Results Steps Teacher Seeing Achieve Students Fine Skills Tools Determine Online Classroom Assessment Next Steps Differentiation Assisting

Author:Susan Mann

“The meaning of life changes as you change dimensional planes. The way human beings perceive the world is only one simple method of seeing. There are many ways to see life. Life has many meanings, and self realization is the understanding of all this.”

World Way Humans Self Understanding Human Beings Simple Seeing Method Self Realization Realization Planes Perceive Life Changing Meaning Of Life Mysticism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.”

Knows Way Understanding Seeing Perceive Dharma

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.”

Thinking Believe Real Understanding Seeing Real Things Disillusion

Book:A Stein Reader

Source: A Stein Reader

“Occasionally there is a moment in a person's life when he takes a great stride forward in wisdom, humility, or disillusionment. For a split second he comes into a kind of cosmic understanding. For a trembling breath of time he knows all there is to know. He is loaned the gift the poet yearned for - seeing himself as others see him.”

Knows Kind Persons Moments Wisdom Understanding Seeing Humility Poet Breaths Cosmic Splits Trembling Stride Disillusionment

Author:Betty Smith

“By understanding how all things arise together, you shift from viewing yourself as acting upon and realizing all things, to a new vision of seeing all things coming forth and realizing you.”

Together Understanding Realizing Acting Vision Seeing All Things Arise New Vision

Author:Reb Anderson

“Just as, in travel, one may miss seeing the sunset because one cannot find the ticket-office or is afraid of missing the train, so in even the closest human relationships a vast amount of time and of affection is drained away in minor misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and failures in consideration or understanding.”

“Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and promotes emotional detachment.”

World Giving Understanding Seeing Awareness Emotional Illusion Relation Photograph Despite Invites Aesthetic Detachment

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“Hearing, seeing and understanding each other, humanity from one end of the earth to the other now lives simultaneously, omnipresent like a god thanks to its own creative ability. And, thanks to its victory over space and time, it would now be splendidly united for all time, if it were not confused again and again by that fatal delusion which causes humankind to keep on destroying this grandiose unity and to destroy itself with the same resources which gave it power over the elements.”

“The more that you're knowing, the more you will be feeling and seeing, the more that you will hurt in your heart, and in your self. Deep heart understanding replaces your need and your holding of personal truths.”

Needs Heart Self Feelings Understanding Hurt Knowing Seeing Deep Heart Personal Truth

Author:John de Ruiter

“Parenthood brings profound pleasure and satisfactions--the unparalleled pleasure of caring so intensely for another human being, of watching growth, of reliving childhood, of seeing oneself in a new perspective, and of understanding more about life.”

Humans Understanding Growth Human Beings Pleasure Seeing Childhood Perspective Profound Oneself Satisfaction Caring Parenthood New Perspective

Book:The Six Stages of Parenthood

Source: The Six Stages of Parenthood

“There is a conceptual depth as well as a purely visual depth. The first is discovered by science; the second is revealed in art. The first aids us in understanding the reasons of things; the second in seeing their forms. In science we try to trace phenomena back to their first causes, and to general laws and principles. In art we are absorbed in their immediate appearance, and we enjoy this appearance to the fullest extent in all its richness and variety. Here we are not concerned with the uniformity of laws but with the multiformity and diversity of intuitions.”

Trying Firsts Wells Art Reason Form Law Science Causes Enjoy Understanding Principles Seeing Diversity Concerned Depth Appearance Intuition Aids Variety Visuals Richness Uniformity

Author:Ernst Cassirer

“True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these things and grasp them with your understanding, but also will and do them.”

Knows Life Understanding Seeing Eternal Beneficial Eternal Life True Wisdom

Author:Emanuel Swedenborg

“The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.”

May Eye Understanding Nature Levels Vision Seeing Objects Instance Axioms

Book:The Works of Lord Bacon: Philosophical works

Source: The Works of Lord Bacon: Philosophical works

“Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the "latent spark" . . . If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?”

Source: Novanglus and Massachusettensis; or, political essays, published in ... 1774 and 1775, on the principal points of controversy, between Great Britain and her colonies; the former by John Adams ... the latter by Jonathan Sewall [or rather, Daniel Leonard] ... To which are added a number of letters lately written by President Adams to the Hon. William Tudor, etc

“A good education ought to help people to become both more receptive to and more discriminating about the world: seeing, feeling, and understanding more, yet sorting the pertinent from the irrelevant with an ever finer touch, increasingly able to integrate what they see and to make meaning of it in ways that enhance their ability to go on growing.”

Source: Effective Teaching and Mentoring: Realizing the Transformational Power of Adult Learning Experiences

“I identify with other women because of my gender, and I identify with other women if they are mothers because I'm a mother, too. It's very simple. It's nothing complicated, it's not rocket science. It's about empathy. It's about understanding that what happens with one person is potentially what happens to you, and seeing yourself in someone else's shoes. Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness.”

Ifs Persons Happens Joy Mother Dies Understanding Born Simple Seeing Sadness Empathy Shoes Complicated Gender Rockets Rocket Science Seeing Yourself

Author:Annie Lennox

“Spirit discernment is rare because it is expensive. It means a sensitive conscience, an instructed understanding through study of the Book of God. It means a passion for purity, for truth, for the right, for Christ Himself, and for living uncompromisingly true in the daily habit. All this lies back of a seeing spirit eye. And these things cost. Discernment is expensive.”

Mean Book Eye Spirit Lying Passion Understanding Christ Study Seeing Habit Cost Conscience Sensitive Purity Expensive Discernment Daily Habits

Author:S. D Gordon

“There's an understanding of common prayer that I think we're seeing grow, more and more. When I travel, I hear from people who are deeply touched that our common prayer takes time to remember some of the terrible tragedies that have happened around the world.”

People Thinking World Remember Grows Understanding Prayer Common Seeing Happened Terrible Tragedy Around The World Touched Take Time Terrible Tragedy

Author:Shane Claiborne