Quotes about Perception

Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

The love of God is no human projection, but the wrath of God is. In fact, what we call the wrath of God is really the love of God experienced by a fool.

The idea that you're hard to love is ludicrous.

If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.

Like an image in a dream the world is troubled by love, hatred, and other poisons. So long as the dream lasts, the image appears to be real; but on awaking it vanishes.

We tap our toes to chaste love songs about the silvery moon without recognizing them as hymns to copulation.

To see, in some measure, like God. His love and His knowledge are not distinct from one another, not from Him. We could almost say He sees because He loves, and therefore loves although He sees.

What does not contain love must contain an illusion.

The life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.

When everyone hates a person, you should investigate thoroughly, and when everyone loves a person, you should also investigate thoroughly.

The law of correspondence says your outer world is a mirror of your inner world. Your outer world corresponds to your inner world. Your outer world of your relationships—especially with your children and spouse—simply corresponds to how you feel about yourself, how you're doing.

No person or situation can make you fed anything-it is only the way you think about a situation that makes you feel the way you do.