Quotes about Perception

We take things at face value, don't we? You form an opinion about something immediately, but you ought to step back a bit. Take in the vista first.

With Hulk, I don't agree with all his choices, but you know what, I don't hear people saying all the great things he does. When he was on the Wheaties box, all those kids that said their prayers and took their vitamins, I don't hear them saying that.

Once you've been talked to by voices, it's not possible to go back to a world where talking voices is not possible.

'We really shouldn't look like a church.' I've heard that so much I want to vomit. 'Why?' I ask. 'Do you want your bank to look like a bank? Do you want your doctor's office to look like a doctor's office, or would you prefer your doctor to dress like a clown?'

I just like showing people - and this might be at the root of everything that I've done - that I don't want to be looked at as a baseball robot.

The me that is me is not my body. It's an awareness and an experience.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. THOREAU, Walden

It means that how we relate to all our moments, all our experiences, is a choice.

When you begin to question the narrative of yourself and inquire as to who is even doing all of this talking inside your own head, you may come to realize that you have no idea!

is that if you are aware of what is happening, you are "doing it right," no matter what is happening.

Thinking seems to constitute our "default setting" rather than awareness.

Here is Eliot, again from "Burnt Norton": Time past and time future Allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time