Quotes about Perception

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes. After that I liked jazz music. Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way. I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened.

The reality of human behavior is that most people avoid those activities in which they perceive themselves to be failures.

True love is delicate and kind, full of gentle perception and understanding, full of beauty and grace, full of joy unutterable. There should be some flavor of this in all our love for others. We are all one. We are one flesh in the Mystical Body as man and woman are said to be one flesh in marriage. With such a love one would see all things new; we would begin to see people as they really are, as God sees them.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales.

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.

Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.

The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

When the record of any human life is set down, there are three pairs of eyes who see it in a different light. There is the life as I see it. as others see it, and as God sees it.

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.