Perception Quotes - Page 18

• I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.

  Jack White

  Thinking, Media, Evil

  "Jack White: 'Is it fun to make music? I don't really know' - an in-depth Q&A from the vaults". Interview with Barney Hoskyns, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2012.

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• When I was a kid, I used to see apparitions and have hallucinations, and my entire perception of the world was badly disoriented. And I had kind of a chaotic childhood because of that. I've really hung onto it, though. Because I actually like those feelings.

  Jim Woodring

  Kids, Childhood, Feelings

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• You have been programmed, brainwashed to see life in very specific forms. Life is endless and we are a body of perception. We are an awareness that is endless. The universe is only perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Body

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• Sight is not absolutely essential in this process, but we use sight because it is the dominant sense. It's easiest to interrupt the flow of thought in sense perception and move the mind beyond sense perception with sight.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Sight, Mind

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• You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or essence of whatever we want to describe, and through the use of fancy, association, contrast, extension, or imagination, to enlarge our understanding or perception of human experience and observation.

  Norton Juster

  Character, Simple, Essence

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• Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Illusion

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• Reincarnation is a process in which a finite being will go through a series of transmutations and will perceive different things. There will be a continuity of perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Different, Reincarnation, Process

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• One of the prevalent features of life with an angry or controlling partner is that he frequently tells you what you should think and tries to get you to doubt or devalue your own perceptions and beliefs.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Thinking, Doubt, Trying

  Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.22, Penguin

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• People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality of creatures and its insistence upon their holiness. But that delight-in, say, the final chapters of Job or the 104th Psalm-is far more useful to the cause of conservation than the undifferentiating abstractions of science... Reverence gives standing to creatures, and to our perception of them, just as the law gives standing to a citizen.

  Wendell Berry

  Jobs, Animal, Law

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• If the world does not shine brightly, even just the physical, sensual perception after meditation, you have not meditated. You have sat and thought of things that were not real.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Shining, Meditation

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• The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Artist, Training, Experts

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• If we try and direct our lives with only our limited rationalistic thoughts and our sense perceptions, then our actions and our activities will not be prefect.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Trying, Our Actions

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• See your life as not just your life but as eternity. Be so completely integrated in the experience of perception that there's no sense of a perceiver but just the fluid moment of ecstasy that is reality unfolding itself to itself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, Mindfulness

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• When you die you pass into inner worlds and continue to perceive. Death is not the dissolution of the self. Death is rather just a change in perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Death, Self, World

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• Death is simply a change in perception. It is not an end to perception as a finite being.

  Frederick Lenz

  Death, Ends, Finite

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• Perception is everything and that becomes the reality. It's a big problem for Hillary Clinton.

  Carly Fiorina

  Reality, Problem, Clinton

  "Gov. Walker on CPAC, record in Wisconsin; Rep. Scalise talks DHS funding fight". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 1, 2015.

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• The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Laughter, Philosophy, Real

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• The meaning and the purpose behind some events are unknowable. This is the ultimate test of our faith. We must trust that everyone in life is here to learn different lessons at different times, that good and bad experiences are only the perceptions of man. After all, some of your worst experiences have truly been your best. They've sculpted you, trained you, developed within you a sensitivity and set you in a direction that reaches out to impact your ultimate destiny.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Destiny, Men

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• You can't cover people with perceptions because we are all different.

  Bernhard Langer

  People, Different

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• The ten thousand states of mind that we talk about in Zen are all levels of perception. You can think of each of the ten thousand states of mind as a dimensional plane.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Mind, Levels

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• Mind only comes into apparent existence through the action of perception. Mind appears to exist because it perceives.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Action, Existence

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• God is not a person. God does not have a history. God does not have a future. God is beyond definition. We can say that your perception of this world is God.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Doe, World

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• Life is the power to perceive. Without perception there is no life, and what is most endemic to perception is power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Power, Life Is, Perceive

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• The whole objective universe is created, ordered, by our perception and by our sense of self.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Self, Whole

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• When we erase perception, then we erase that which perceives perception. The universe dissolves and we see that it was never real to begin with.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Yoga, Perceive

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