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Perception Quotes
"Close your eyes to see the world with your imaginative mind."
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"Light wears out the eyes but does not wear out the soul."
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"It is always easier to find fault and criticize than it is to find beauty and appreciation."
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"We are not in the world, the world is inside us."
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"Being rich or famous does not equate an effective life."
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"All shoes have value but shoes do not have same value."
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"The outer expression of a person often reflects the inner perception and deeper beliefs."
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"People are seen through the stained glass window of our imagination. ['The hidden sides of his character']"
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"In simple terms, what you perceive as real, is actually a neurological reconstruction or simulation of the actual real thing. It's not as simple as saying, we see as it is. Actually we do not ever see as it is."
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"How we choose to perceive affects how we partake of reality, narrowly or completely."
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"Just look at the fellow, standing there like a bloody Greek god. Do you think she chose him because of his intellect?"I graduated from Cambridge, Christopher said acidly. "Should I have brought my diploma?"
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"The mirror will only lie, when you look at it through a mask."
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"We do not actually know other nations, we only know our judgements."
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"You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
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"What you today perceive as beautiful and special, over time, becomes not so special. That's how the human brain works."
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"Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in order to see beyond the limitations of current social perception."
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"Life is an illusion which wisely prevents you from seeing yourself fully."
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"The whole world reacts negatively to loss. What wrong has loss done? If you ask God if he has any profit or loss, then God would tell you, 'You are looking at it from an illusory viewpoint, you are seeing 'relative' and that is why you see everything as a profit or loss. I see through Real knowledge'."
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"Beauty is only there when you have the ability to see and appreciate it."
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"Listen, in dreams and especially in nightmares, from indigestion or anything, a man sees sometimes such artistic visions, such complex and real actuality, such events, even a whole world of events, woven into such a plot, with such unexpected details from the most exalted matters to the last button on a cuff, as I swear Leo Tolstoy has never invented."
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"Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye."
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"A true religious person should not think that "my religion alone is the right path and other religions are false. Other religions are also so many paths leading to the same domain of transcendental bliss. Likewise, no person should think "my perception of the reality is the only absolute reality, and all others' are false, because each human brain has its own unique way of perceiving the reality."
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"Hate contains truth. beauty is a facade."
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"Nothing like being in a dream, then waking up to a nightmare."
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"What you say reflects how you feel about the world."
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"When the brain becomes too tired, the mind stops decrypting the perceptions in our mental world and surrenders willingly to the unguarded moments of life.For some time, the safeguards of our thinking pattern weaken and discontinue the decoding of the chips of daily reality.The mind picks the instants which are above suspicion, pure and innocent. ['Uber alle Gipfeln ist Ruh']"
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"When you have orientational awareness, your perceptions and impressions are based on location and proximity. Orientation may imply hierarchy, position, and prestige, or be the result of habits, traditions, and perceptions."
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"If you want to see beauty, look with love and appreciation and you will find it."
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"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, not the mirror."
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"For us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy!"
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"Changing your perception will alter your interpretations and therefore, your reality. If you feel like you're hitting a wall because you simply don't understand something, or another person has a different approach, keep your mind open and willing to reinterpret it with fresh eyes, more information, a change in position, or a new perspective."
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"Some people aren't really light-teethed, they're merely dark-skinned."
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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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"A 'sensitive' person will not have common sense."
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"If your life is founded on what you can see then your success will be insignificant and very brief."
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"All those we can love, think, or imagine are more real than those we can see or have seen."
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"He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much, but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken."
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"But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters."
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"Life is not what happens to us, it is what we perceive has happened to us."
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"Maya (deceit) means that one cannot see the nature of things as they are but sees them in a different form."
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"Since non-verbal signals have five times the impact of verbal signals, paying attention to the image you are projecting is crucial to your first impressions."
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"When someone picks the Gnani Purush's [the enlightened one's] 'pocket', how does the Gnani Purush'' look at it? "Very well! This amount is now credited to my account! Money spent for the home is money down the drain. How can anyone 'see' this [fact] with the narrow inner intent of 'mine and yours'? With an all encompassing [broader] intent, one will see 'as it is', that is called 'Gnan' [Knowledge]."
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"You cannot have a beautiful life if you always focus on ugliness in others."
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"We each project to others a reflection of the world which includes our choices of perception."
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"If you look for beauty, you will find it."
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"What you focus on gets prettier, what you love gets closer."
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"Materialistic perception of life makes us spiritually shortsighted."
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"The mind can fool the heart, as the heart can fool the mind."
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"It is not important what you see, but it is important the way you see it."
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"We often focus on what is wrong and complain that nothing is beautiful."
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