If having problems feels like a problem to you, it may not be the problems themselves, but the way you think about them that is the problem.

Happiness depends on perception, not on possessions.

My life is so bad that it’s worse than it really is.

The Church is full of Hypocrites!” Yes, it is, and thank God for that, it means the church is doing its job. The church wants hypocrites, adulterers, thieves, and more, for the church is where...

I can’t prove it yet know it when I seem it.

I want to listen to accomplished women scarred by sexism that still walk in elegance and kindness; hear powerful men that have a heart to serve. I want to talk to the brokenhearted that still...

Many realities hidden behind wall of perception.

I love objectivity when mine.

In some languages (Hindi is one), every perception is called “seeing”. Maybe, the trick is to rely on the eyes less and less as one perceives more and more.

People perceive the divine according to their own biases. That doesn’t make the experience any less real.

You can see ugliness or you can see beauty in the same thing – It just indicates your state of mind ~ Ramana Pemmaraju

Rich or poor it’s nice to have money

Sometimes we must forge distance to gauge clarity in our vision and perception.

Beating yourself up over every perceived mistake is the work of an internal abuser who must be restrained and reformed.

An hour later we were walking past rows of busy beach huts and weaving between sunbathers and Frisbee games. I was surprised that people weren’t taking more notice of us. Everyone looked so strange to...

What if the differences between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge? Would this not mean the whole Pyramid is built on shifting sands?” I...

Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.

Despite the restrictions, we are safe within (the Box). But – and here is the problem – once we identify something more, that awareness irrevocably changes our perceptions of the Box.

The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday...

In my perception, the world wasn’t a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.

Belief is made up of the same non-substance of which we ourselves are composed. The test of any belief system, then, is the degree to which this same light is permitted to shine through.

A female cop in my dream observes a shuffle, and takes note, but doesn’t fully see the bank robbery I have just committed during the planned distraction. All she sees is a man with a...

We have long laboured under an obtuse presupposition that the senses by which other living creatures perceive their world must to a great extent resemble our own; but in fact we are, by scientific invention,...

How we perceive of the world around us determines the outcome of what it is we choose to see or not see

How thin the air felt at the forest’s edge, how ghostly the trees that guarded their realm…. The whole world seemed as delicate as a dandelion seed, and as fleeting…. How sad to know that...

There are times when the truth can only show you an illusion.

Eventlessness has no post to drape duration on.

The most important thing I learnt on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people...

Deceptions of the senses are the truths of perception.

You can believe what you’ve been told. You can imagine in vivid detail the things explained to you. You may even feel emotions assumed to accompany the related experience. But you absolutely cannot know something...

What is seen by mind, is an environmental image that projected by public consciousness in vicinity.

You’re psychic.

You can’t tell me what we’re doing right now is not working. The perception is, well, it’s not. I don’t deal in perception. I want to deal in reality. The reality of the matter is...

Perceptions of the world and of other actors diverge from reality in patterns that we can detect and for reasons that we can understand.

In spiritual moments we nearly perceive a grand, divine conspiracy of interconnectedness between us and everything.

The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.

To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most...

It is true that our everyday view of the world is not quite naively realistic, but that is what it would like to be. Common-sense is naively realistic wherever it does not think that there...

Words make the intangible aspects of human experience communicable, and a single sentence can shatter our world view and assist us in the formulation of a new one.

Land and water are not really separate things, but they are separate words, and we perceive through words.

Two people can illustrate crudity to you.The first is the crude man, whom you see perceiving the diamond as a stone.The other is the refined man, who makes clear to you the crudity of the...

Our happiness or misery depends upon our perception, not on the situation.

The forces of the sea give rise to imagination, which reflects them according to the nature and disposition of the perceiver. The sea itself is undifferentiated and without bias.

Dad had once said, Trust your mind, Rob. If it smells like shit but has writing across it that says Happy Birthday and a candle stuck down in it, what is it?Is there icing on...

Perception does not define who we are, but it does define where we are limited, and where we are not yet free.

Nothing happens ‘to’ you, everything happens ‘for’ you.

A broken mirror is good luck if you want it to be.

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or dimension of existence.

It is not always easy. Your successes are unheralded — your failures are trumpeted. I sometimes have that feeling myself.”[Speech at CIA Headquarters, November 28, 1961]