Perception Quotes - Page 26

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Body, Different

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• Our awareness creates life. Life does not exist independently of perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Buddhism, Doe

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• There is no continuity at all. The universe isn't any particular way. It strictly depends upon perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Buddhism, Way

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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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• Reality does appear to exist, there does appear to be birth, youth, people appear to have children. But all of it's a dream. These are isolated moments that are only connected by perception. There is no separation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Children, Buddhism

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• The continuity of perception is an individualized being, when that continuity is lost, the being no longer exists as they have been.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Awareness, Lost

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• This particular world is not really a world, it's a perception that you are having at the moment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, World, Moments

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• From infinite awareness, something comes forward, a sense of infinite awareness and finite awareness. That perception is the birth of a being.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Birth, Infinite

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• Perception is, in essence, who we are. We are what we perceive. What we perceive defines who we are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Essence, Who We Are

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• Self is the perception of perception. Beyond self there's no perception of perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Self, Awareness

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• There is the experience of enlightenment, to be very aware of what lies beyond the boundaries of cognitive perception, reflection and self-awareness as seen by the personality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Lying, Buddhism, Reflection

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• Within the human frequency of perception, what you see is what you get. I would classify the bottom of the band as severe unhappiness, depression and alimentation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Band, Awareness

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• There have been people who have categorized the bands of perception in different yogic systems. It gives them pleasure to create names and orders and to make catalogs. Human beings like that.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Order, Names

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• It's not that you get a cliché and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don't take an ordinary decorative paragraph and give it style. What you're trying to do is be faithful to your perceptions and transmit them as faithfully as you can. I say these sentences until they sound right. There's no objective reason why they're right. They just sound right to me.

  Martin Amis

  Writing, Giving, Faithful

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• Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much like everyone else's life. We have family members we love, everyone gets up in the morning, they have three meals a day and they go about their business.

  Sissy Spacek

  Morning, Reality, Hollywood

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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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• As a human being you are capable of a higher level of perception than you may now be cognizant of. You are not really who you think you are. There are many selves inside you, not just one.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Thinking

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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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• As you evolve and develop your psychic abilities, you will enter into perceptions of life, truth, beauty and you will gain a power to live your life in an intelligent, perceptive and strong way.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Success, Strong

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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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• By disciplining and training the mind to focus on one thing, we gain control of perception; we learn to grab it and put it someplace we want it to be.

  Frederick Lenz

  Focus, Training, Mind

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• To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life, of poetry, and of perception, the four Great Ones, the Four Roots, the First Four of Fire and the Wet, Earth and the wide Air of the World. To find the other many elements, you must go to the laboratory and hunt them down. But the four we have always with us, they are our world. Or rather, they have us with them.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Science, Fire, Our World

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6863, Delphi Classics

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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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• All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.

  Bertrand Russell

  Knowledge, Science, Degrees

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.380, Psychology Press

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• The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Self, Ideas

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