Quotes about Perception

In everyday life, it is very rare that we are confronted with new facts about events of long ago. Our memories are almost never challenged. They can, instead, be frozen in place, no matter how flawed they are, or become a work in continual artistic revision.

If the enemy can think and feel, you might hesitate to kill them. And killing is very important. Better to see them as monsters.

If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.

Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child—our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

The electron is first of all your concept of the electron.

Many of us think of our daily nourishment only in terms of what we eat. But in fact, there are four kinds of food that we consume every day. They are: edible food (what we put in our mouths to nourish our bodies), sensory food (what we smell, hear, taste, feel, and touch), volition (the motivation and intention that fuels us), and consciousness (this includes our individual consciousness, the collective consciousness, and our environment).

A person who looks at the table and can see the universe is a person who can see the way.

As a culture, we place great stock in external appearance. Our attachment to physical beauty is something that we need to let go of, yet it seems that the majority of people are racing toward it.

The fear, the anger and the despair is born on the ground of wrong perception.

Contemplating a beautiful sunrise, you're not distracted by thinking about the past or the future. The more concentrated you become, the more you see the beauty all around you. So concentration is a source of happiness.

Ignorance is in each cell of our body and our consciousness. It's like a drop of ink diffused in a glass of water.

All concepts, including those of "unity" and of duality, are foreign to experience which can be described as non-conceptual.