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• As NVC replaces our old patterns of defending, withdrawing or attacking in the face of judgment and criticism. We come to perceive ourselves and others, as well as our intentions and relationships, in a new light. Resistance, defensiveness, and violent reactions are minimized.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Light, Criticism

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• The whole function of the life of prayer is, then, to enlighten and strengthen our conscience so that it not only knows and perceives the outward, written precepts of the moral and divine laws, but above all lives God's law in concrete reality by perfect and continual union with His will.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Prayer, Reality

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.42, Shambhala Publications

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• Who is it that loves and who that suffers? He alone stages a play with Himself; who exists save Him? The individual suffers because he perceives duality. It is duality which causes all sorrow and grief. Find the One everywhere and in everything and there will be an end to pain and suffering.

  Anandamayi Ma

  Pain, Grief, Play

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• I hate a stupid man who can't talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect. I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . . A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can't show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.

  Anthony Trollope

  Sex, Clever, Stupid

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.755, e-artnow

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• Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme. Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine. ... to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal. What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Simple, Intuition, Analysis

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1983). “I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• The task of neural science is to explain behaviour in terms of the activities of the brain. How does the brain marshall its millions of individual nerve cells to produce behaviour, and how are these cells influenced by the environment...? The last frontier of the biological sciences – their ultimate challenge – is to understand the biological basis of consciousness and the mental processes by which we perceive, act, learn, and remember.

  Eric Kandel

  Cells, Challenges, Brain

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• The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech

  Lev S. Vygotsky

  Children, Eye, World

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• To perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were the person, but without ever losing the "as if" condition. Thus, it means to sense the hurt or the pleasure of another as he senses it and to perceive the causes thereof as he perceives them, but without ever losing the recognition that it is as if I were hurt or pleased and so forth.

  Carl Rogers

  Hurt, Mean, Emotional

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit familiar. I want people to feel a kind of empathy with them. When you think about it, all nature is kind of strange looking.. in fact, I'm a strange a looking creature.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Nature, Thinking, Differences

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• We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.

  Humphry Davy

  Philosophy, Reason, Natural

  Humphry Davy (1840). “The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy (etc.)”, p.303

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• Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an explosion into unknown areas.

  Arshile Gorky

  Art, Eye, Men

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• The criterion and rule of the true is to have made it. Accordingly, our clear and distinct idea of the mind cannot be a criterion of the mind itself, still less of other truths. For while the mind perceives itself, it does not make itself.

  Giambattista Vico

  Ideas, Mind, Doe

  Giambattista Vico, Leon Pompa (1982). “Vico”, p.55, CUP Archive

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• The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive the world, to help a student absorb the rules of a discipline. The teachers who do that get remembered.

  David Brooks

  Teacher, Discipline, World

  David Brooks (2011). “The Social Animal: A Story of How Success Happens”, p.83, Short Books

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• It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.

  William Golding

  Majesty, Redemption, Vastness

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• Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is past and future, so it perceives the timeless Now as threatening. Time and mind are in fact inseparable.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Time, Past

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.34, New World Library

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• I don't see a direct conflict between the rights of individuals and the rights of communities, because I don't perceive of communities as having rights in a way that individuals do. Communities certainly have interests, but they don't exactly have rights.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Community, Conflict, Individual

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• Several times in my life I've gone through long periods without sex or any other kind of physical contact. The hunger it produces is deep and low; it's possible to lose track of it, to forget or fail to perceive how it's emptied everything out of you and made the world papery and thin. Touch starved, you brush against existence like a stick against dry leaves. You become insubstantial yourself, a hungry ghost.

  Hari Kunzru

  Sex, Track, Long

  "My Revolutions". Book by Hari Kunzru, 2007.

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• If, as some savants of consciousness suggest, we are actually agreeing to create, from moment to moment, everything we perceive as real, then it stands to reason that we're also responsible for keeping it going in some harmonious manner.

  Phil Lesh

  Real, Consciousness, Moments

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• The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were the person.

  Carl Rogers

  Emotional, Empathy, States

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Empathy allows us to re-perceive our world in a new way and move forward.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Moving, Our World, Empathy

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• The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for the words that would accurately describe an emotion or a situation, it lowers their reality orientations, pushes them farther from shore, out onto the foggy waters of alienation and confusion.

  Tom Robbins

  Reality, Water, Confusion

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.77, Bantam

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• The environment as we perceive it is our invention.

  Heinz von Foerster

  Environment, Invention

  Heinz von Foerster (2007). “Understanding Understanding: Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition”, p.212, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Reality is what one does not perceive when one perceives it.

  Niklas Luhmann

  Reality, Doe

  Niklas Luhmann, William Rasch (2002). “Theories of Distinction: Redescribing the Descriptions of Modernity”, p.145, Stanford University Press

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• The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.

  Byron Katie

  World, Clarity, Clear

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• Wherever love and compassion are active in life, we can perceive the magic breath of the spirit blowing through the sense world.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Compassion, Magic, World

  Rudolf Steiner (1998). “Love & Its Meaning in the World”, p.235, SteinerBooks

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