“Some people get tired of continual perception of the finite universe. They feel the perception of the universe over and over in variant forms is kind of an unhappy condition, because it doesn't last.” PeopleFeelsKindWisdomLastsFormSufferingUniverseConditionsBuddhismPerceptionTiredUnhappyFinite Author:Frederick Lenz
“All the universes are bound together by a web, a matrix, which is our perception. And our perception actually has colors; it has bands. We call them bands of attention.” WorldTogetherUniverseAttentionColorBuddhismBandPerceptionBoundsOther Worlds Author:Frederick Lenz
“Life is perception. We perceive through different parts of the body of the universe.” DifferentBodyLife IsUniverseAwarenessBuddhismPerceptionPerceiveParts Of The Body Author:Frederick Lenz
“There is no continuity at all. The universe isn't any particular way. It strictly depends upon perception.” WayScienceUniverseAwarenessParticularBuddhismDependsPerceptionContinuity Author:Frederick Lenz
“The universe is made up of an endless ocean of life itself. It is an endless ocean of itself. And for a time it binds itself together in particularized forms. Those forms have perception and they perceive themselves as being separate.” MadeTogetherFormUniverseAwarenessBuddhismOceanPerceptionEndlessPerceive Author:Frederick Lenz
“There are many great bands of perception in the universe. There are both organic and inorganic bands of perception.” UniverseAwarenessBuddhismBandPerception Author:Frederick Lenz
“Within you there are thousands of rings of luminosity, bands, and each one is a universe of perception. In the average person's lifetime, they might just open up two or three, maybe four of those bands.” PersonsTwoMightUniverseThreeFourAwarenessBuddhismBandPerceptionLifetimeAverageRingsWithin YouAverage Person Author:Frederick Lenz
“You have been programmed, brainwashed to see life in very specific forms. Life is endless and we are a body of perception. We are an awareness that is endless. The universe is only perception.” InspirationalHas BeensBodyFormLife IsUniverseAwarenessBuddhismPerceptionEndlessBrainwashed Author:Frederick Lenz
“The whole objective universe is created, ordered, by our perception and by our sense of self.” SelfWholeUniversePerceptionYogaObjectivesSense Of Self Author:Frederick Lenz
“When we erase perception, then we erase that which perceives perception. The universe dissolves and we see that it was never real to begin with.” RealUniversePerceptionYogaPerceiveErase Author:Frederick Lenz
“Consciousness is the screen. The images on the screen are your perceptions, the illusion that life is solid, that there is a material universe.” Life IsUniverseConsciousnessMaterialsPerceptionIllusionYogaScreens Author:Frederick Lenz
“As to the most prudent logicians might venture to deduce from a skein of wool the probable existence of a sheep; so you, from the raw stuff of perception, may venture to deduce a universe which transcends the reproductive powers of your loom.” MayMightUniverseStuffExistencePerceptionLogicSheepVenturePrudentWool Book:Practical Mysticism Source: Practical Mysticism
“Let us fix our attention out of ourselves as much as possible; let us chase our imagination to the heavens, or to the utmost limits of the universe; we never really advance a step beyond ourselves, nor can conceive any kind of existence, but those perceptions, which have appeared in that narrow compass.” KindUniverseHeavenImaginationExistenceAttentionStepsLimitsPerceptionCompass Author:David Hume
“The mystical perception (which is only "mystical" if reality is limited to what can be measured by the intellect and senses) is remarkably consistent in all ages and all places. All phenomena are processes, connections, all is in flux...have the mind screens knocked away to see there is no real edge to anything, that in the endless interpenetration of the universe, a molecular flow, a cosmic energy shimmers in all stone and steel as well as flesh.” IfsMindWellsRealRealityAgeUniverseEnergyProcessPerceptionFlowStonesConnectionsEdgesIntellectScreensFleshSensesEndlessConsistentCosmicSteelMysticalFluxShimmerCosmic Energy Author:Peter Matthiessen
“The whole story of the universe is implicit in any part of it. The meditative eye can look through any single object and see, as through a window, the entire cosmos. Make the smell of roast duck in an old kitchen diaphanous and you will have a glimpse of everything, from the spiral nebulae to Mozart's music and the stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi. The artistic problem is to produce diaphanousness in spots, selecting the spots so as to reveal only the most humanly significant of distant vistas behind the near familiar object.” LooksArtWholeStoriesProblemEyeArtistUniverseBehindsObjectsProducePerceptionWindowSmellSignificantFamiliarSpotsArtisticKitchenCosmosDucksGlimpseSpiralsImplicitVistasSt Francis Of Assisi Author:Aldous Huxley
“We tend to be so bombarded with information, and we move so quickly, that there's a tendency to treat everything on the surface level and process things quickly. This is antithetical to the kind of openness and perception you have to have to be receptive to poetry.poetry seems to exist in a parallel universe outside daily life in America.” KindSeemsAmericaMovingPoetryUniverseProcessLevelsInformationPoetPerceptionTreatsSurfaceTendenciesDaily LifeOpennessParallelsReceptiveParallel UniverseBombarded Author:Rita Dove