Quotes about Perception

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

It's dangerous that we can all paint a completely false picture of ourselves.

When I had my first panic attack, I believed that it was a heart attack.

I've been told I'd make a great parts model.

Every time I make an assumption about someone who has hurt or disappointed me without confirming it, I believe a lie about this person in my head. This assumption is a misrepresentation of reality. Because I have not checked it out with the other person, it is very possible I am believing something untrue. It is also likely I will pass that false assumption around to others.

We can't change—or better said, invite God to change us—when we are unaware and do not see the truth.

Some of us are addicted to what others think.

A child doesn't say, "What's wrong with this environment where I am growing up?" They think, What's wrong with me?

What we think has a strong influence on what we feel. John

When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.

Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.

If you hold a rose up before a man and he shuts his eyes tight and just holds out his hands and says "Here, I am ready to be persuaded; convince me by touch that your rose is red;" then you are helpless.