Stephen Batchelor Quotes About Perception

Quotes about: Perception

• Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware and alert in the present moment, the mind flings us into tawdry and tiresome elaborations of past and future. This craving to be otherwise, to be elsewhere, permeates the body, feeling, perceptions, will - consciousness itself. It is like the background radiation from the big bang of birth, the aftershock of having erupted into existence.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Past, Feelings, Mind

• Our conceptions of the world affect our perceptions of the world which, in turn, condition the way we subsequently conceive the world.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Perception, Way, World

  Stephen Batchelor (1983). “Alone with Others: An Existential Approach to Buddhism”, p.98, Grove Press

• Living from our deepest understanding requires an enormous effort, especially when it goes against the stream of our instinctually programmed perceptions of the world.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Effort, Understanding, Perception

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