Perceive Quotes - Page 10

• There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.

  Bernard Malamud

  Dark, Self, Mystical Experiences

  Bernard Malamud (2003). “The Natural: A Novel”, p.94, Macmillan

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• Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their labours having been for this life, they perceive at last their trouble lost.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Baby, Men, People

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• The more we learn about the wonders of our universe, the more clearly we are going to perceive the hand of God.

  Frank Borman

  Hands, Wonder, Universe

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• If people perceive themselves as having very little opportunities to be fulfilled, then it cheapens their life and outlook. The solution is to reverse it; make sure they know opportunities abound.

  Michael Lee-Chin

  Opportunity, People, Littles

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• All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.

  Lynn Margulis

  Animal, Environmental, Plant

  Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan (1995). “What is Life?”, p.27, Univ of California Press

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• Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same bigger object in four dimensions? ...What if humanity- that collective noun we so often employ- really is, at a higher level, a singular noun? What it what we perceive in three dimensions as seven billion individual human beings are really all just aspects of one giant being?

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Thinking, Humanity, What If

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• With some CGI, I think the brain slightly perceives that things aren't real. There's no gravity, the light's not quite real, the shadows aren't quite real.

  Nick Park

  Real, Thinking, Light

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• Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Children, Father, Greatness

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• The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.

  Samuel Johnson

  Knowledge, Views, Curiosity

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• Life is perception. We perceive through different parts of the body of the universe.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perception, Body

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• We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, Views

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• If we view the universe as other than what we are, we are everything we don't perceive.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Views, Awareness

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• We perceive the solidification as the world around us, which appears to be relatively solid. But that solidification is just really a reflection of the solidification of one's sense of self.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reflection, Self

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• Perception is a wave. You change as your perception of something changes because you define yourself as a reflection of whatever you happen to perceive.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reflection, Perception

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• Your self is the universe, and you perceive the universe through a state of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Self, Mind

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• Through the experience of memory, you recall what you have done, and you therefore attach yourself to it and perceive yourself through prior experience.

  Frederick Lenz

  Memories, Buddhism, Done

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• You perceive yourself as being solid and physical, limited to a body. You are made up of light, endless mind. The way you see life is a limited state of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Mind

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• The universe is ecstasy. We have many other ways of perceiving infinity. And when you perceive life through these other modes, that's when you see that the universe is ecstasy, That's when you experience its ecstasy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Way, Infinity

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• In the western philosophy you can't perceive infinities at every moment. It's not there to do.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Humanity

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• Happiness is in the mind and the mind is the universe. Your mind is the universe, not just this physical universe that you perceive through your senses.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Mind

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• I perceive and relate to the world through where I grew up; that's part of me. It's what I judge everything else against.

  Michael Sheen

  Judging, World, Grew Up

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But the U.S. has to be careful. If our strategy depends on Sunnis doing the fighting to clear Mosul and Ramadi - and, as near as I can tell, that is the strategy - then you have to be careful that Sunnis don't perceive the U.S. to be operating arm in arm with Iran or with Iranian-backed Shiite militias that Abadi - Prime Minister Abadi is using in Iraq, so that, in effect, we're fronting for Iran.

  David Ignatius

  Fighting, Iran, Iraq

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The energy strands and bands of our being are linked in a certain way and makes us what we are. It causes us to perceive a certain level of the dream of life. But you can reorder those. That's magic, you see.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Buddhism, Magic

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• The universe is always ecstasy and it's always perfect, but we don't perceive it that well. If we keep doing our yoga in every lifetime, we perceive it more correctly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Perfect, Lifetime

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• Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.

  Criss Jami

  Running, Men, Safety

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.88, Criss Jami

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