Quotes about Perception

If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know.

When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.

When I was younger, people would always say, 'Are you a ballet dancer?' I had that look - one of those skinny kids with my hair in a bun.

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

Don't program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.

I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.'

A Christian novelist tries to describe the world as it is.

It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Exactitude is not truth.