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Letter "P" » Perception
«It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.»
Author: C. W. Leadbeater
| About:
Perception
| Keywords:
commonest, common mistake, limit, perceive, perception, The Limit
«Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.»
«To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms.»
Author: Claude Simon
| About:
Perception,
World
| Keywords:
deform, deformed, deforms, incomplete, selective, to begin with
«Sometimes men are scared of me. You become a kind of an icon on television, and people are a little bit unsure, careful. It's funny.»
«People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the Great Unseen, not what I cause Myself to be in any particular moment. In a sense, I am what I am not. It is from the Am-notness that I come, and to it I always return.»
«After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn?t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked?as I am surprisingly often?why I bother to get up in the mornings.»
Author: Richard Dawkins
| About:
Compassion,
Conscience,
Creativity,
Discovery,
Evolution,
Existence,
Experience,
Exploration,
Goodness,
Gratitude,
Happiness,
Knowledge,
Learning,
Life,
Mankind,
Meditation,
Mortality,
Nature,
Opportunity,
Perception,
Perspective,
Philosophy,
Responsibility,
Truth,
Wisdom
«If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is - infinite»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Perception
| Keywords:
as it is, cleansed, cleanses, doors, Doors of Perception, infinite, perception, The Doors, The Doors of Perception
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