Quotes about Perception

Yet the only reason you believe that you were born is that your parents saw you emerge from the womb. They thought they witnessed the moment when you began to exist, so they spread the rumor that you had been born." Savitri was astonished. . .

it {romantic love} really isn't about two people who have fallen madly for each other; it's about two people seeing spirit in each other.

To the wizard death is merely a belief.

Separation may just be an illusion. When we feel love in any form, it has the effect of beginning to shatter that illusion.

There are only two kinds of thoughts you can have, memories and imaginings.

Apakah penampilanku satu-satunya hal yang membuatku berharga? Jika begitu, jangan tatap aku. Wajahku bisa menyembunyikan hati yang palsu.

You are whatever your faith is.

The ego fiercely protects its view of the world, and we've all experienced how wispy and fleeting any experience can be when it doesn't fit our ingrained belief system.

Since God has infinite intelligence, the more your perception expands, the closer you come to God. There's not even a need to seek, only to see.

The universe has no restrictions. You place restrictions on the universe with your expectations.

The mind isn't only the thoughts and sensations constantly streaming through it. There is a silent, invisible foundation to thought and sensations. Until that background is accounted for, individual consciousness mistakes itself, and in so doing it cannot help but mistake what it observes. This is expressed in a Vedic metaphor about the wave and the ocean: A wave looks like an individual as it rises from the sea, but once it sinks back, it knows that it is ocean and nothing but ocean.

Every experience comes to us in one of four ways: as a feeling, a thought, an action, or simply a sense of being.