As I grew up, everything started getting grey and dull. I could still remember the amazing intensity of the world I’d lived in as a child, but I thought the dulling of perception was an...

People enjoy the passion of delusions. However, the world is built on a basis that if you free yourself, you find yourself within another illusion. There is always a truth hidden within a truth. It...

Songs are as sad as the listener.

Even if you have not awakened, if you realize that your perceptions and activities are all like dreams and you view them with detachment, not giving rise to grasping and rejecting discrimination, then this is...

Mostly you are what they think you are.

What smells good may not always taste good, I leaned this the day I tried to eat a scented candle.

The reflection that we see everyday has nothing to do with how others see us. The glass lies.

That is certainly one way to look at the matter. There are others.

In this treacherous worldNothing is the truth nor a lie.Everything depends on the colorOf the crystal through which one sees it

…What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.

..the senses do not give us a picture of the world directly; rather they provide evidence for checking hypotheses about what lies before us. Indeed we may say that a perceived object is a hypothesis,...

There is no truth beyond perception. How you look at things is the truth for you.

Sometimes the pain is a startling breach that hobbles your entire soul; dreadful losses that rupture your perceived reality. Pain so visceral and unrelenting that even death itself can begin to look like a welcomed...

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy,...

The task is…not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.

True inspiration unfolds itself, not by force or it becomes fake. True intuition is also the ability to be observant.

According to this model, human beings are, at least in one aspect, sensation-receiving machines; and although our receptory apparatus is competent to select and organize outward stimuli within the narrow range necessary for physical survival...

What you see is not what wee se. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.

The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating.

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice...

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and what it saw in a plain way. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion–all in one.

Conscientious stupidity is a religion for most. Many will deny it, but it’s those same people that find it easier to ignore the truth. This religion can only be followed by their humble ignorance. It’s...

The master said You must write what you see.But what I see does not move me.The master answered Change what you see.

You will know who truly loves you when you ask them to do an uncoventional favor.

I walked home, seeing all my doubt from the other side. Have you ever seen that? Like when you go on holiday. On the way back, everything is the same but it looks a little...

I love you because you loved me first. Yet you love me, saying I loved you first. Funny, our love thrives believing the other person started it.

When your heart truly adores somebody, your mind perceives a halo on that man’s head.

A cell in our body may recognize that it is part of a greater whole, but it may never be able to define all that is beyond it simply because of its limited perceptive capacity....

Humans see what they want to see.

We both know that, my friend, but a man’s perception soon becomes his reality.

I think there’s this public perception that we’re under tremendous scrutiny, so I guess that’s true, but I have to tell you, I would never have that conversation with West Virginia. I would never impose...

Anyone can find the dirt on someone, but very few can wipe it from their own shoes.

People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.

To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with survival or to...

Life as we know it is our perception of reality.

[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man’s wickedness is now such that men are more ashamed of chastity than of lechery. Murderers, thieves, perjurers, false...

Words, no matter whether they are vocalized and made into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts, can cast an almost hypnotic spell upon you. You easily lose yourself in them, become hypnotized into implicitly believing...

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

Hope keeps us alive. Love gives us joy. Perception of inner joy open the door toward the happiness.

Time itself is only as real as your own mental discrimination between the revelation and concealment of the one Light.

La beauté qui parle aux yeux, reprit-elle, n’est que le prestige d’un moment; l’œuil du corps n’est pas toujours celui de l’ me.”(“The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes,” she continued, “is only the...

Someone called my character the Meg Ryan of the Broken Hearts bunch. Now maybe the perception is that I’m a Meg Ryan type.

according to the psychologist irving Janis, is that our sense of belonging (which makes us feel safe) blinds us to dangers and encourages greater risk-taking.

You make the best out of it, you can. Nothing is ever as good or as bad as you think it will be. It’s what you make of it.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever:Its loveliness increases;It will neverPass into nothingness.

The destruction of sight, wherever the injuries be sustained, follows the same law: all colours are affected in the first place, and lose their saturation. Then the spectrum is simplified, being reduced to four andsoon...

Those without an idea of who you are make you become what they think.

Pain, unless it is physical, was sold to you (by your culture).