Quotes about Perception

Finally I scrawled at the bottom of the epistle that I truly feared for this woman. We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find them. If we are looking for witchcraft and evil, we'll likely find them, and we may get taken over by them.

one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

All of Madeleine's writing, fiction and nonfiction, was an example of how all narrative is fiction, and all fiction can be true.

See? So is 0.428571.

We'll never leave the solar system as long as we keep on thinking of time as a river flowing from one direction into the sea.

you don't have to understand things for them to be.

You become what you think, not what others think of you.

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don't. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.

When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.

Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.