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• We look at the world through our likes and dislikes, hopes and fears, opinions and judgments. We want everyone to behave as we think they should; otherwise we get agitated. But we are here to accept the world as it is, even as we work to make it better.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Change, Hope, Fear

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• Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.

  Paracelsus

  Spiritual, Men

  Paracelsus (1918). “The Life and the Doctrines of Philippus Theophrastus, Bombast of Hohenheim Known by the Name of Paracelsus: Extracted and Translated from His Rare and Extensive Works and from Some Unpublished Manuscripts”

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• People may not tell you how they feel about you, but they always show you. Pay attention.

  Keri Hilson

  Attitude, People, Attention

  FaceBook post by Keri Hilson from Sep 28, 2010

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• We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Positive, Attitude

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• The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

  Umberto Eco

  Opposites, Feelings, Sense Of Humor

  Umberto Eco (2014). “Travels in Hyperreality”, p.287, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  "A DreamWithin a Dream" l. 10 (1849)

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• It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

  Robert W. Service

  Anger, Adversity, Climbing

  "Sand: The Never-ending Story". Book by Michael Welland, p. 30, 2009.

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• Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Analysis, Intuitive

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• It is the mind that weaves the dream of life, it convinces us that what we see is what is apparent and what is real, and that there's nothing else outside of our perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Real, Buddhism

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• Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.

  Alfred de Musset

  Inspirational, Time, Attitude

  Alfred de Musset (2012). “The Confession of a Child of the Century”, p.50, tredition

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• The mice think they are right, but my cat eats them anyways. This is the point, reality is nothing, perception is everything.

  Terry Goodkind

  Cat, Reality, Thinking

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• Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

  Alexis Carrel

  Reality, Intuition, Instinct

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• Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious

  Carl Jung

  Intuition, Unconscious, Memories Dreams Reflections

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• If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Reality, Way, Wells

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• Within each experience of pain or negativity is the opportunity to challenge the perception that lies behind it, the fear that lies behind it, and choose to learn with wisdom. The fear will not vanish immediately, but it will disintegrate as you work with courage. When fear ceases to scare you, it cannot stay. When you choose to learn through wisdom, to evolve consciously, your fears surface one at a time in order for you to exorcise them with inner faith. This is how it happens. You exorcise your own demons.

  Gary Zukav

  Faith, Wisdom, Courage

  Gary Zukav (2014). “The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• We are selling ourselves very short by funneling our energies into what the traditional perception is of academic and monetary success.

  Gunter Pauli

  Success, Energy, Academic

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• I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Believe, Long, Brain

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.90, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The best things in life aren't things.

  Art Buchwald

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.

  Deepak Chopra

  Reality, Views, Way

  "Power, Freedom, and Grace". Book by Deepak Chopra, 2006.

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• The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Positive, Attitude, Warrior

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation—without the pestilence of panic or fear.

  Ryan Holiday

  Discipline, Pestilence, Panic

  Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph”, p.17, Penguin

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• We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

  John Henry Newman

  Inspirational, Friends, Attitude

  Blessed John Henry Newman, Aeterna Press (2009). “The Idea of a University”, p.170, Aeterna Press

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  We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization.

  Robert Brustein

  Ongoing, Enlightened, Program

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• The last thing a fish would ever notice would be water.

  Ralph Linton

  Water, Would Be, Lasts

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