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...

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.

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...

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.

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...

Art has been wrecked by a complete consciousness of the universe which shews that the world is to each man only a rubbish-heap limned by his individual perception. It will be saved, if at all,...

The perception has been sort of an ‘us-against-them’ mentality in the NHL for a long period of time. I think this addresses that perception, and builds the idea of a partnership.

When it seems like the sky is about to collapse, relax, that’s just the roof caving in.

Happiness is a perception of the mind that comes from forgiveness and love.

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.