Perception Quotes - Page 10

• No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Two, Principles

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Gage (1980). “Goethe on Art”, p.5, Univ of California Press

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• Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving.

  Elvis Costello

  Looks, Deceiving, I Can

  Song: Painted From Memory, Album: Painted From Memory, 1998

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• I don't see people as groups, I see them as individuals.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  People, Groups, Individual

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• I'm sorry if my traumatized life is an inconvenience to you and your perfect existence.

  Neve Campbell

  Sorry, Perfect, Life Is

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• How the world perceives you is largely out of your control.

  Sheryl Crow

  World, Perceive

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• Just remember that nothing is as bad as it seems and nothing is as good as it sometimes appears.

  Troy Aikman

  Remember, Sometimes, Seems

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• True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst. Psychologically, I think it means a release of energy.

  Lin Yutang

  Mean, Thinking, Mind

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• When we become fixed in our perceptions we lose our ability to fly.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Fixed, Ability, Loses

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (2010). “Joyful Wisdom”, p.73, Random House

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• The joy of juxtaposition is endless.

  Peter B. Lewis

  Joy, Juxtaposition, Endless

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• How sure we are that everyone's watching. How sure we are that no one sees.

  James Richardson

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• Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving

  Jane Hirshfield

  Possibility, Words And Music, New Possibilities

  Jane Hirshfield (2015). “Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World”, p.8, Knopf

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• For whatever be the knowledge which
  we are able to obtain of God, either by
  perception or reflection, we must of
  necessity believe that He is by many
  degrees far better than what we
  perceive Him to be.

  Origen

  Believe, Reflection, Degrees

  Origen (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)”, p.60, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes.

  Marianne Williamson

  Reality, Uncertainty Principle, Principles

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Emotional, Cinema, Symbols

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 176), 1986.

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• There is an intellectual function in us which demands unity, connection and intelligibility from any material, whether of perception or thought, that comes within its grasp; and if, as a result of special circumstances, it is unable to establish a true connection, it does not hesitate to fabricate a false one.

  Sigmund Freud

  Intellectual, Unity, Special

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey (2001). “Totem and Taboo: Some Points of Agreement Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics”, p.111, Psychology Press

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• There's this perception that if you worry a lot and if you look really busy and stressed out then you'll be more successful. You talk about how little sleep you get and how tensed you are and how you're not getting the appreciation you deserve.

  Nancy Meyers

  Appreciation, Stress, Sleep

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• The nature of the Absolute is neither perceptible nor imperceptible; and with phenomena it is just the same. But to one who has discovered his real nature, how can there be anywhere or anything separate from it?... ...Therefore it is said: 'The perception of a phenomenon IS the perception of the Universal Nature, since phenomena and Mind are one and the same.'

  Huangbo Xiyun

  Nature, Real, Mind

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• A snake knows more about what is happening around than any other creature, because it has no ears to listen to gossip - only direct perception.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Snakes

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• Looking at everything through your phone is only numbing your perception - it does not really enhance your experience of life in any way.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Phones

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• Spiritual process is not about chanting a mantra or closing your eyes, spiritual process is essentially about enhancing your perception.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Yoga, Eye

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• Only in unawareness you are mortal. In awareness you are immortal.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Unawareness, Clarity

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• Without raising human consciousness, whatever we do in the world will only lead to more and more suffering.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Suffering, World

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• Time and space are just projections of your consciousness.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Space, Clarity

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• Once you have access to the source of creation within you, your health and wellbeing will naturally be taken care of.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Taken, Care

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• The source of creation is within you. You can be just a piece of flesh, or you can be the Creator himself - this is the choice and potential you have.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Choices, Pieces

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