You will die, and when you die, you will know a profound lack of it [dignity]. It’s never dignified, always brutal. What’s dignified about dying? It’s never dignified. And in obscurity? Offensive. Dignity is an...

Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you...

There was no style in nature.

How do you see the world? Happy endings come not through events but through a shift in perception.

We prayed the moon would unstopper long enough to suck us through to the other side so we could see how dull the stars were at their backsides.

All continuous suffering, is self inflicted.

The new limitations are the human ones of perception.

The troops and their ladies had first drunk champagne. There were also remains of sandwiches, and I stepped on one, which I think was either cucumber or watercress. I scraped it off on the curbing,...

Here’s something else I’d like your opinion about,” I said. “If he went back underground and sat down again in the same spot, wouldn’t the sudden transition from the sunlight mean that his eyes would...

Noise is any pattern we don’t understand. […] If we perceive something as noise, it’s most likely a failure of ourselves, not a failure of the universe.

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

It’s probably unfair to expect the world at large, or even most people, to see us for all we are. It is essential, however, that we see ourselves for all we are. (413)

If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks on our door, we won’t want to let it in.

Quoting son, Noah Levine: Once you see what the heart really needs, it doesn’t matter if you’re going to live or die, the work is always the same. (25)

One Fails Before One’s Perception…!

The Christian witness never benefits when Christian organizations are known more for what they are against than what they are for.

They’re trying to create the perception on Wall Street that inventories are in great shape, but how much of that is true sales of merchandise and how much is just accounting?

* The revolution of consciousness is connected to the food revolution

Di naman iiyak ang mundo sa isang tao lang…

Happiness is the inner perception of calmness, tranquility and joy.

This is a perfectly good picture. And if I didn’t know you, I would be impressed and charmed. But I do know you.”He thought some more, wondering whether he dared say precisely what he felt,...

The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire.

Happiness is not in perfection but it is a perception in the midst of imperfection.

For the first time in his life, Mont Blanc for a moment looked to him what it was – a chaos of anarchic and purposeless forces – and he needed days of repose to see...

I am surprised by how not-adopted the video reply has been. What keeps other people from doing it, I think, is that they think a video comes across as ‘I’m cool, look at how many...

Reality is just a matter of perception.

Noah had transformed in my eyes, too, butt it wasn’t because he had changed. It was my perception of him had changed. He’d always been the cool person I’d come to know and respect, I’d...

Perception is the lie that we convince ourselves exists

Emotion lay at the very heart of the process of perception, intertwined with intellectual functions, yet adding to perception a quality that reason lacked.

W jakimś sensie takie osoby jak ona, te, które władają piórem, bywają niebezpieczne. Narzuca się od razu podejrzenie fałszu – że taka osoba nie jest sobą, tylko okiem, które bezustannie patrzy, a to, co widzi,...

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free

I do think that our perception of reality is fragmentary, and in 20th-century literature, it’s totally normal to not describe reality as something whole and completely transportable and explicable. That’s been accepted in novels. But...

Happiness, thou art naught but an illusion. Thy enchantments are cast upon my eyes, my mind, my spellbound heart. Dependent upon nothing but thy victim’s perception of thee, souls soar at thy artful hand! I...

Our view of the mind not only shapes our view of ourselves; less obviously, it also shapes our view of that part of our experience we conceive of as dealing with the external world. As...

Not to understand is profound; to understand is shallow. Not to understand is to be on the inside; to understand is to be on the outside.

We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep.We rise; one wand’ring thought pollutes the day.We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep,Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away;It is the same: for, be...

Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.

The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can […] be closed with a shout of recognition.

The truth is helpless when up against perception

The human brain takes in information from other people and incorporates it with the information coming from its own senses, neuroscientist Gregory Berns has written. Many times, the group’s opinion trumps the individual’s before he...

Perception meets you at the intersection of your beliefs and reality.

How much of what is there do you allow yourself to see?

The perception is that it is more generous than it is. Grants are generally only for those that are completely wiped out or uninsured.

Life is 10 percent what you make itand 90 percent how you take it.

An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.

Before you accomplish your dreams physically, your inner make up, mindset, emotions and perception have fought the battle mentally and that already determined how the battle will be fought physically.

All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language.

The sacred stillness of your brilliant hearthas as the myriad wonders masqueraded.But if you knew this secret from the start,then you’d have quit this Game before you played it.

If you perceive a world where there are separate images and you still feel a charge about anything, that is the indicator that you want to ask for Help. Lord, help me today. I am...

Some trees grow straight, while others grow gnarled and twisted. Yet none are imperfect. Perfection is merely a perception.