And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see...

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our...

Thoreau and Huxley calmly state what I have spent years trying to articulate, and never found the words for doing so. To read the words of these great men is to read the highest expression...

The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it.Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn’t owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed...

Fear is a perception to dare but not to scare.

Happiness is a perception of what you have, not what you should have.

The first serious consciousness of Nature’s gesture – her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the first time, the stage-scenery of the senses collapsed; the human...

It had belonged to that idea of the exasperated consciousness of his victim to become a real test for him; since he had quite put it to himself from the first that, oh distinctly! he...

Through our awareness, we can open the inheritance of our qualities or talents, and behind that, reside in the stillness of being, present in the sanctity of universal love.

Our response to the external conditions of our lives can be greatly altered by our perceptions of those conditions.

The mystic sees God in everything; the scientist, atoms; the poet, poetry.

it crossed Farren’s mind that although death seemed big, life was even bigger

Perception is everything. Mariah was totally seen as the underdog (because) those albums were considered failures.

Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough

What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

A snake bites your ankle.Recoiling, you scream.Fearing poison, your mind slips into a dream……where a man bites your ankle.Expecting no guile, ‘Again,’ softly falls from your lips with a smile.Yet, the man and the snake...

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception…you see what is, where most people see what they expect.

So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we ever care to preserve. Our recollection of the past is not simply distorted...

I think there is a growing perception that the next move by the Fed could actually be to ease — in other words, lower rates. Now, we’re not going to see that certainly before the...

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

Sometimes we do grip the concert in a human head, and so hold it that in a way we get a record of it into paint, but the vision and expressing of one day will...

There are people who desperately want to change the world. I wonder if it could be measured, because the world is already in the state of continuously change since the beginning of time. Or they...

Group membership can modify individuals’ perceptions of themselves. Unable to separate their personal introspection from the ways they believe other people perceive them, teenagers may have what psychologists call an “imaginary audience”, meaning that they...

How we choose to perceive affects how we partake of reality; narrowly or completely.

All we know is what we’re told.

People sometimes get so lost in their own beliefs that they fail to gain truth and understanding. You can’t get the whole picture just by relying on your own perception. Never be afraid of the...

While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation of knowledge. Understanding cannot be realized by listening or reading about the realization...

I’m often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

I think public perception is a big part when you talk about selling,

Form is useful, but it is secondary.

Though we may choose to view them symbolically, dreams are actually no more or less symbolic than everyday waking reality. When the images and events don’t conform to our view of reality, we call them...

The Holy Spirit Asks that you accept the idea of one mind wholeheartedly, for this is the Correction to the error called ego. The ego was the belief in private minds with private thoughts, but...

What happens to you during Life may seem out of your control; how you perceive each experience, however… good or bad… is totally up to you.

The author perceives nuances of Abigail Adams’ character in the occasional errors she makes in readily quoting John Milton. Rather than giving the observer a reason to quibble, they are evidence that she had absorbed...

Our contradictions are never so to ourselves.

Humans are most imaginative when they need a means of self-destruction. If the world existed in an overflowing amount of happiness; a utopian state, then the suicide rate would dwarf any extinction level threat. Humans...

picture” is clear and accurate. But is it?

TRUST ADJUSTAn act that changes perception can elevate or lower integrity

You can twist perception, reality won’t budge

An author must gorge himself on ten thousand images to select the magical one that can define a piece of the world in a way one has never considered before.

Semakin bersedia seseorang untuk menilai sesuatu dari sudut pandang orang lain yang berbeda, maka semakin beragamlah perspektifnya terhadap sesuatu tersebut.Semakin beragam perspektifnya terhadap sesuatu tersebut, maka semakin dekatlah persepsinya dengan kebenaran utuh dan apa adanya...

Sometimes the closer we got to a situation, the less clear it looked.

There are all degrees of proficiency in the use men make of this instructive world where we are boarded and schooled and apprenticed. It is sufficient to our present purpose to indicate three degrees of...

When we see someone or something as imperfect, it is a reflection of our limitations, not theirs.

The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind.

Love — not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love sees through them to the secret inside.

No one is an outside observer of nature,We’re defined by our environment and our interaction with that environment — by our ecology. And that ecology is necessarily relative, historical and empirical.

Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.

Clothing doesn’t really change a man. But it changes how others react to him.

…Understanding as had the ancients that angels and demons were identical- interchangeable archetypes- all a matter of polarity: the guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon...