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• There is a sea of consciousness that is universal, even though we each perceive it from our own shores, an awareness and a world that we all share, that can be experienced by every living being, yet is seldom seen by any.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Sea, World, Consciousness

  Alberto Villoldo, Erik Jendresen (1990). “The four winds: a shaman's odyssey into the Amazon”, Harpercollins

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• We never really perceive what color is physically!

  Josef Albers

  Color

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• It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast area of unexploited potential beyond what you currently perceive to be your maximum.

  Steve Backley

  Winning, Secret, Accepting

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• Sitting quietly, doing nothing, not knowing what is next and not concerned with what was or what may be next, a new mind is operating that is not connected with the conditioned past and yet perceives and understands the whole mechanism of conditioning. It is the unmasking of the self that is nothing but masks - images, memories of past experiences, fears, hopes, and the ceaseless demand to be something or become somebody.

  Toni Packer

  Memories, Past, Self

  Toni Packer (1995). “The Work of This Moment”, Tuttle Publishing

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• Society is made up of individuals. The thoughts and actions of each individual influence the culture of that society. Instead of waiting for others to improve, we should try to improve ourselves. Once our attitude has changed, we will be able to perceive goodness throughout world. If there is a positive change in us, it will also be reflected in others. It is only what we give that we can hope to get back.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Attitude, Giving, Waiting

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• I perceive my limitations even as I work. There are times when I see nothing but restrictions, barriers. Learning takes time.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Restriction, Take Time, Barriers

  Isamu Noguchi (1999). “The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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• The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Divine, Loud, Music Is

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• There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.

  Felicia Day

  Men, Thinking, Media

  "Felicia Day Talks the New Season of Her Hit Web Series ‘The Guild’ and the Hazards of Being a ‘Girl Gamer’" by Robert Echevarria, www.indiewire.com. October 02, 2012.

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• I perceive the world through the wide range of emotions that whirl all around in it.

  David Archuleta

  World, Emotion, Range

  David Archuleta (2010). “Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance”, p.267, Penguin

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• In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.

  Peter Mullan

  Fighting, Games, Long

  Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2003.

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• A lot of people perceive women as sexy based on their outer appeal. But there's no way to mistake if a woman is confident.

  Trey Songz

  Sexy, Mistake, People

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• Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning toward a future of your own - only be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything you perceive around you. What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Healing, Thinking, Self

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.

  Socrates

  Knowledge, Thinking, Swans

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• A beautiful question is an ambitious yet actionable question that can begin to shift the way we perceive or think about something - and that might serve as a catalyst to bring about change.

  Warren Berger

  Beautiful, Thinking, Ambitious

  Warren Berger (2014). “A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas”, p.8, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• How a man perceives substance dictates the amount of substance in a man. To know the depth of anyone's true substance, simply measure the weight of what consumes and excites their inner drive.

  Suzy Kassem

  Men, Depth, Substance

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• Without imagination, you live in a small room with the windows closed. Imagination opens the windows and shows us landscapes, horizons that we would not otherwise perceive…I want education to empower people to see possibility.

  Maxine

  Small Rooms, People, Imagination

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• When we brand things, our brains perceive them as more special and valuable than they actually are.

  Martin Lindstrom

  Brain, Special, Valuable

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• When you perceive yourself as spirit, you will not simply feel love - you will BE love.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love You, Spirit, Feels

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Aug 18, 2010

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• You cannot perceive what you are not in the vibration of.

  Darryl Anka

  Positive, Law Of Attraction, Vibrations

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• Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Attitude, Law Of Attraction, Events

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• I am as great as the thoughts I conceive. I am as great as the Universe I perceive. I am as great as the love of my heart. I am as great as the God in my Soul.

  Robert Muller

  Attitude, Heart, Law Of Attraction

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• It certainly strikes the beholder with astonishment, to perceive what vast difficulties can be overcome by the pigmy arms of little mortal man, aided by science and directed by superior skill.

  Henry Tudor

  Science, Men, Skills

  Henry Tudor (1834). “Narrative of a tour in North America: comprising Mexico, the mines of Real de Monte, the United States, and the British colonies; with an excursion to the island of Cuba. In a series of letters, written in the years 1831-2”, p.233

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• [Y]ou will understand the game behind the curtain too well not to perceive the old trick of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating force in the government.

  James Madison

  Government, Games, Resources

  James Madison (1867). “1794-1815”, p.7

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• The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Rose, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.656, Library of America

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• There is often a big disparity between the way in which we perceive things and the way things really are.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Way, Disparity

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