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• I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.

  Octavia Spencer

  Drama, Thinking, People

  "Interview with Octavia Spencer of The Help". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. August 9, 2011.

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• Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Children, Father, Greatness

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• The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.

  Samuel Johnson

  Knowledge, Views, Curiosity

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• The buildup of negative auric vibrations initially impairs our ability to perceive psychically. They can eventually cause us to become ill. Most serious illnesses, including many types of cancer, are the result of auric toxicity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Cancer, Serious Illness, Negative

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• There is the physical world that we live in, which we perceive through the senses, but there are other worlds. Right in front of you there are other worlds, right now. Those worlds are as real, if you will, as the physical world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Buddhism, Other Worlds

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• Life is perception. We perceive through different parts of the body of the universe.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perception, Body

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• We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, Views

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Self

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• If we view the universe as other than what we are, we are everything we don't perceive.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Views, Awareness

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• We perceive the solidification as the world around us, which appears to be relatively solid. But that solidification is just really a reflection of the solidification of one's sense of self.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reflection, Self

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• The universe is a giant perceptual matrix. It perceives itself through its substance

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Giants, Substance

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Buddhism, Perception

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• Perception is a wave. You change as your perception of something changes because you define yourself as a reflection of whatever you happen to perceive.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reflection, Perception

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• Your self is the universe, and you perceive the universe through a state of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Self, Mind

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• Perception is, in essence, who we are. We are what we perceive. What we perceive defines who we are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Essence, Perception

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• Through the experience of memory, you recall what you have done, and you therefore attach yourself to it and perceive yourself through prior experience.

  Frederick Lenz

  Memories, Buddhism, Done

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• You perceive yourself as being solid and physical, limited to a body. You are made up of light, endless mind. The way you see life is a limited state of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Mind

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• It is possible to modify your awareness to perceive what plants perceive, birds, beings in the astral, the causal.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Bird, Awareness

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• Dimensionality only exists because the mind can perceive life that way, but that's only one simple method that the mind has for perceiving itself, for perceiving life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Simple, Mind

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• Life is invisible. The illusion is that what we perceive is in some way not a reflection of self. Life reflects the field of attention that we're in.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reflection, Self

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• The universe is ecstasy. We have many other ways of perceiving infinity. And when you perceive life through these other modes, that's when you see that the universe is ecstasy, That's when you experience its ecstasy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Way, Infinity

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• In the western philosophy you can't perceive infinities at every moment. It's not there to do.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Humanity

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• What we see in this world is a gross abnormality. The human consciousness fails to perceive the very simple, divine nature of every atom in every moment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Simple, Humanity

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• Happiness is in the mind and the mind is the universe. Your mind is the universe, not just this physical universe that you perceive through your senses.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Mind

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• The Frisbee is a round disk. That's the somethingness. But it has another side; it has a nothingness which you cannot perceive with your physical mind or your senses.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Mind

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