Quotes about Perception

They look like the oppressors, but have no doubt they are really the oppressed.

God's greatest ally is reality itself. God's greatest revelation is what is (see Romans 1:20)—not what we want it to be, and not even what it should be—not abstract theories but concrete encounters.

You cannot know anything spiritually by saying it is a not-that : you can only know it by meeting it in its precise and irreplaceable thisness and honoring it there.

The unprayerful heart will always twist reality to its own liking.

Truly enlightened people see oneness because they look out from oneness, instead of labeling everything as superior and inferior, in or out. If you think you are privately "saved" or enlightened, then you are neither saved nor enlightened, it seems to me!

A mature Christian sees Christ in everything and everyone else.

Death is not a changing of worlds as most imagine, as much as the walls of this world infinitely expanding.

I have never been separate from God, nor can I be, except in my mind.

God comes to you disguised as your life," as my friend Paula D'Arcy so wisely says.

reality itself, our reality, my limited and sometimes misinterpreted experience, still becomes the revelatory place for God.

The proof that you are a Christian is that you can see Christ everywhere else.

Authentic God experience always expands your seeing and never constricts it. What else would be worthy of God? In God you do not include less and less; you always see and love more and more. The more you transcend your small ego, the more you can include.