Quotes about Perception

the joy and love were so tangible that Meg felt that if she only knew where to reach she could touch it with her bare hands.

we're all a grab bag of good and eveil, and by and large can't tell which is which

Gregory of Nyssa points out that Moses's vision of God began with the light, with the visible burning bush, the bush which was bright with fire and was not consumed; but afterwards, God spoke to him in a cloud. After the glory which could be seen with human eyes, he began to see the glory which is beyond and after light. The shadows are deepening all around us.

The complete, the true Mrs Whatsit, Meg realized, was beyond human understanding. What she saw was only the game Mrs Whatsit was playing; it was an amusing and charming game, a game full of both laughter and comfort, but it was only the tiniest facet of all the things Mrs Whatsit could be.

We look not at the things which are what you could call seen, but the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal.

Finally I scrawled at the bottom of the epistle that I truly feared for this woman. We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find them. If we are looking for witchcraft and evil, we'll likely find them, and we may get taken over by them.

one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

All of Madeleine's writing, fiction and nonfiction, was an example of how all narrative is fiction, and all fiction can be true.

See? So is 0.428571.

We'll never leave the solar system as long as we keep on thinking of time as a river flowing from one direction into the sea.

you don't have to understand things for them to be.

Until you can see it in your mind, you will not see it with your eyes. Vision precedes sight.