Quotes about Perception

Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.

The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.

Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.

Everyone creates what he fears.

I opened two gifts this morning. They were my eyes.

God is good, and I love Him. Right now, God is permitting a very hard thing. Why, I don't know, but I still trust Him.

I can tell the difference between the acts of a man and the acts of God. That's why I still believe. I could always tell the difference.

There is no holy life. There is no war between good and evil. There is no sin and no redemption. None of these things matter to the real you. But they all matter hugely to the false you, the one who believes in the separate self. You have tried to take your separate self, with all its loneliness and anxiety and pride, to the door of enlightenment. But it will never go through, because it is a ghost.

My body is a projection of my consciousness.

Time is just quantified eternity.

Commit yourself to the possibility that everything you see around you is far less real than God. You want to see the truth "with all your heart, with all you soul, and with all your mind," as Jesus says. This is actually a commitment to joy.