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Perception Quotes
"It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn't."
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"This [worldly suffering] is indeed the result of a flawed-vision. When this flawed-vision goes away, the world will be seen "As it is. By sitting with the 'Experienced Person' whose flawed-vision is gone, our flawed-vision will go away. Nothing else will make it go away."
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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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"You know a man is interesting when you forget to notice how expensive - or cheap - his clothes are."
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"The new limitations are the human ones of perception."
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"I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am."
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"When blackened night falls, darkness exists if one chooses to rely on sight as thy only guide."
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"The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured."
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"The more you look, the less you see."
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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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"Reality is not what we see, reality is what we think 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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"When I went out, light of day seemed a darker color than when I went in."
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"You must learn to ignore what people say, Sebastian murmured, coming to her. Standing behind her, he rested his fingers lightly on her shoulders, causing her to start a little. "You'll be much happier that way. Suddenly his voice was tipped with amusement. "I've learned that while gossip about others is often true, it's never true when it is about oneself."
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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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"You don't need to look at the beauty to feel the love."
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"Reality depends a great deal upon one believing what he sees-or seeing what he believes. Either way."
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"Mind needs more than 3D perception to be able to see edge of the universe."
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"Reality and fantasy are not two separate spheres but one whole. They are like a world's atmosphere-reality behaving as a low front, fantasy a high front. Each remains somewhat distinguishable and yet they swirl and join, affecting and manipulating the other. One cannot perceive where reality ends and fantasy begins, but life would grow stagnant and die without the influence of both."
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"Not everyone who talks less or keeps quiet whenever they are with or around you does that because they find you interesting or knowledgeable, some people do that because they find you boring or ignorant."
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"Every baby is born beautiful. It's what we project on them that makes them ugly."
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"Presence and AbsenceA certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence: I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence."
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"This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That's why everything is exactly the wrong way around."
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"I can see better when i close my eyes; don't make much ado, that's my latest style of view."
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"When shrouded meanings and grim intentions are nicely polished up and pokerfaced personae are generously palming off their fantasy constructs, caution is the watchword, since rimpling water on the well of truth swiftly obscures our vision and perception. ['Trompe le pied.']"
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"Not all people are 'people', some are more and some are less. But only those who listen intently with their hearts will recognise them for what they are."
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"The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into fiction). They may be so close as to be out of focus, and there is no operating novelist to dispel the blur."
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"You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagination. You may not see your ears, but they will be there."
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"We live on a little island of the articulable, which we tend to mistake for reality itself."
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"Eyes can't sense a smell of rain before it drops.Mind can't see event of future before it happens."
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"To see anything other than 'as it is' - that is called the world."
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"We are who people think we are. The reality is irrelevant."
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"The air moved slowly around his body, somehow tangible, gold flaked, every dust mote a lantern."
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"All seems infected that the infected spy as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye."
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"You are received the way you present yourself."
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"You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade's edge and its tip."
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"Life imitates art, but clumsily, copying its movements when it thinks it isn't looking."
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"To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with survival or to a human being obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended directly and unconditionally by Mind at Large-- this is an experience of inestimable value to everyone and especially to the intellectual."
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"You think everything revolves around Zane Hollander, don't you?'No. But I think your blush does."
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"What you expect, it will happen."
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"People don't believe what is true but believes what they hear regularly."
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"Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time."
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"What you see and what you focus on has a profound impact on your behaviour."
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"The person who suffers most in this world is the person who has many wrong perceptions, and most of our perceptions are erroneous."
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"A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out."
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"The way you separate Reality from Imagination is the number of bandages you have to use."
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"I think poverty is not the worst thing in the world, blindness is, because blind people cannot see your beauty."
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"The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish."
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