Quotes about Perception

Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should, stupid, cowardly, calculating, etc., etc. All day long I hear nothing but what an exasperating child I am, and although I laugh it off and pretend not to mind, I do mind. I wish I could ask God to give me another personality, one that doesn't antagonize everyone.

Father always says I'm conceited, but I'm not, I'm merely vain!

Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.

I learned that God was an equal opportunity employer—that it was possible to experience the divine anywhere you were, anywhere you could see the sun and moon rise or set, or burn through the fog.

When humans experience something as powerful as a forest or a rainbow, it is not crazy to assign its existence to a Greater Intelligence.

I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost, while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head.

Are you willing to see what you are seeing, and to know what you know?

You begin to notice all the props surrounding these people, and you begin to understand how props define us and comfort us, and show us what we value and what we need, and who we think we are.

They taught me to pay attention, but not so much attention to my tiny princess mind.

Every sound is by definition a stop, which is how we can hear it.

A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost

There is so much mercy around us and in us, so much available to us if we just have the eyes and intention to see it.