Quotes about Perception

Sin comes from not realizing God's love. Sin comes from thinking ourselves only as sinners, while overcoming sin comes from thinking ourselves as overcomers. We act our our perceived identities.

Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive the mystery of God in all.

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

Love is banality to all outsiders.

The love is real in any situation; everything else is just an illusion.

But precisely this illusion that everything is "clear" is what is blinding us all. It is a serious temptation, and it is a subtle form of pride and worldly love of power and revenge.

For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us.

They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.

People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.

God sees us with the eyes of a Father. He sees our defects, errors and blemishes. But He also sees our value.

Fear corrodes our confidence in God's goodness. We begin to wonder if love lives in heaven. If God can sleep in our storms, if his eyes stay shut when our eyes grow wide, if he permits storms after we got on his boat, does he care? Fear unleashes a swarm of doubts, anger-stirring doubts. Fear at its center, is a perceived loss of control.

The stone was moved—not for Jesus—but for the women; not so Jesus could come out, but so the women could see in!