Quotes about Perception

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

I have often said that there was no cause for feeling disturbed at being misrepresented in the press. It would be only when they began to say things detrimental to me which were true that I should feel alarm.

Does everything always have to mean something else?" I ask before we get started. Who knew that literature was so tangled and complicated? "That is a wonderful lesson, Sang Ly. Remember it." "What was it again?" I ask, not certain to what she was referring. She repeats it for me. "In literature, everything means something.

Guys are like dogs: they never notice if you've changed your hair, but they can sense when there's another guy sniffing around their territory

One who looks outside, dreams. One who looks inside, awakens.