Quotes about Perception

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.

There is no such thing as stress; only people thinking stressful thoughts.

There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence of holiness.

... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us.

Our life experiences area result of where our attention takes us.

God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone's heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth.

When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly.When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.

where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?

The problem is that they don't even realize that they're walking a new road every day. They don't see that the fields are new and the seasons change. All they think about is food and water

There are indeed solid ontological foundations for an understanding of signals of transformation. Both Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin take the notion of God to be a direct perception of God's existence, one unmediated by reason, by revelation, by society, or by psychological need.

No matter what I see or how many times I think I may have seen it before, I always ask, "What is this, Lord?" I am confident that the same God who gives me the revelation can also interpret it for me.