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Perception Quotes
"In other words, we may, by fixing our attention almost fiercely on the facts actually before us, force them to turn into adventures; force them to give up their meaning and fulfill their mysterious purpose."
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"I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people's eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth."
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"Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it."
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"Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction."
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"The mind can fool the heart, as the heart can fool the mind."
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"Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterly ashamed to admit it, many of the most important things in my life are invisible."
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"Bless the bright eyes of your sex! They never see, whether for good or bad, more than one side of any question; and that is always, the one which first presents itself to them."
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"To see things (vastu) 'as it is' in its purest form, is called samkit (enlightened view; right belief), and to see it any other way is called mithyatva (wrong belief)."
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"She gave me this look " she might have been watching from a lifeboat as the ship went down. Or maybe it was the other way around."
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"Strictly speaking, it might not be a dream. It was reality, but a reality imbued with all the qualities of a dream. A different sphere of reality, where - at a special time and place - imagination had been set free."
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"Some people live disconnected, in a world of their own. Their wishful thinking represents their sole veracity. But when the mirror smashes the reflection of their delusion, it will not falter to talk back. ['The day the mirror was talking back']"
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"I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy."
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"People who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all."
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"If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend."
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"I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am."
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"The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul."
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"Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates."
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"An ant can't define shape of an elephant solely from its' point of view.They have to unify all views. It's a way for ant to understand elephant.In order to understand true realities, men need to do mental blending."
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"Tobias took the photograph. At least, that's what I saw. Most likely I still had the photograph in my hand, but I couldn't feel it there, now I perceived Tobias holding it. It's strange, the way the mind can change perception."
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"You look too pretty to be useful." "Truer words were never spoken."
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"We live our lives supposing things are as they appear to be when that is almost never the case."
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"No is a false perception. Yes is a positive conception.Go with reality and reason."
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"When I, awoke, they called me crazy; But only those, whom were still asleep."
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"We only listen to what we want to hear."
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"Adam mused, "Incorruptus. I never thought anyone would use that word to describe Lynch. Ronan looked as pleased as a pit viper ever could."
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"We don't need eyes to judge people's beauty, but unfortunately we judge them as we see."
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"I see, eye see, what my heart feels, soul knows. In flowing sound and glowing scenes, I touch the living dream."
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"Some people aren't really light-teethed, they're merely dark-skinned."
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"Women. You'll interpret anything as love. You see a man wearing an idiotic expression, and you assume he's been struck by Cupid's arrow when in reality, he's digesting a bad turnip."
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"When I went out, light of day seemed a darker color than when I went in."
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"Perception is assumed to be reality until clients encounter the reality of the brand, don't fake it."
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"The secret is not to think, we think in words. And what lies beyond the reality we see is a truth that words can't contain, the secret is to feel."
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"People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so."
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"Appearance matters, we see your presentation before we get a chance to sample the substance within. You might miss a chance for the latter."
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"The thing [vastu, eternal element] itself is just one. But a 'like' and 'dislike' occurs due to illusion, because everyone's viewpoint is different."
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"Ugliness sees ugliness, beauty sees beauty."
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"It is not important what you see, but it is important the way you see it."
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"A 'sensitive' person will not have common sense."
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"If you look for beauty, you will find it."
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"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, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision."
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"Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things."
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"Only the eye that sees can differentiate a flower from leaves."
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"The paramanus [indivisible atoms] of mind-speech and body are effective. That is why things appear as good or bad. It shows good as being bad and bad as being good. And because of that, opinions are formed. The parmanus [indivisible atoms] of mind-speech-body themselves express opinions."
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"What you focus on gets prettier, what you love gets closer."
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"Being rich or famous does not equate an effective life."
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"It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes."
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"We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis."
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"Time, Eddie had decided during this period, was in large part created by external events. When a lot of interesting shit was happening, time seemed to go by fast. If you got stuck with nothing but the usual boring shit, it slowed down. And when everything stopped happening, time apparently quit altogether. Just packed up and went to Coney Island. Weird but true."
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