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]

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn’t much time left.

It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.

How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.

One noteworthy study suggests that people who suppress negative emotions tend to leak those emotions later in unexpected ways. The psychologist Judith Grob asked people to hide their emotions when she showed them disgusting images....

It is Nature that causes all movement. Deluded by the ego, the fool harbors the perception that says “I did it”.

There are many things which can not be expressed by words. There are many words which can not be spelled by human tongue. There are many tongues which utter one single truth.

The world’ is man’s experience as it appears to, and is moulded by, his ego. It is that less abundant life, which is lived according to the dictates of the insulated self. It is nature...

All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon’s time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed facts. This is incontestable, in our present advanced stage; but, if we look...

You can see a rose both in two ways. First, through its beautiful petals. The other, through its thorns

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.

nothing changes from one generation to another except the things seen and the things seen make that generation, that is to say nothing changes in people from one generation to another except the way of...

We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream.

Happiness doesn’t depend on reality but it depends on perception.

The way to embody love completely is to see and appreciate life just as it is, and not as you believe, fear, or desire it to be.

The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.

A day is a day. It’s just a measurement of time. Whether it’s a good day or a bad day is up to you. It’s all a matter of perception.

Imagine, Bishop, that you have a beloved cat, but that your cat is not with you. If you close your eyes and further imagine you are petting your cat, the same neurons in your brains...

Look at a cloud and it may seem very still. Look at it a few minutes later and it could have transformed into a totally different shape without you even noticing. When it may seem...

It takes discipline to turn illusion into reality.