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  • You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.

    Religious   Eye   Waiting  
    John Henry Newman, Francis J. McGrath, FMS, Gerard Tracey (2006). “The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman Volume IX: Littlemore and the Parting of Friends May 1842-October 1843”, p.274, Oxford University Press
  • Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.

  • Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

    Art   Men   Perception  
  • Buddhism is perception, gaining control of the mind and directing one's attention, to raise the kundalini energy so that it flows with such volatility and force that we simply perceive life correctly.

  • I think there's going to be a very sudden shift in people's perception of the International Space Station, because suddenly it's going to look much, much bigger than it already is.

    Thinking   Space   People  
  • If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities.

    Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.116, Routledge
  • Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.

    Mohsin Hamid (2015). “Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London”, p.38, Penguin
  • The individuals inside are frequently fighting that their individual voices be heard, while the walls of the place, which are the mask, and the perception, are reluctant to give over to the voices of the individuals. Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance. Part of the identity of a place is the tension between those in the margins, and those in the center, and they all live behind the walls which wear the tradition.

  • While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.

  • Hurry is a manifestation of fear; he who fears not has plenty of time. If you at with perfect faith in your own perceptions of truth, you will never be too late or too early; and nothing will go wrong.

    Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Being Great: Personal Self-Help Book of Wallace D. Wattles (Unabridged): From one of The New Thought pioneers, author of The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, How to Get What You Want, Hellfire Harrison, How to Promote Yourself and A New Christ”, p.39, e-artnow
  • Self discovery doesn't not seek to bring you answers about your personal life or philosophically comfort you about life and death. What it does is bring you into reality as perception itself.

  • We ourselves introduce that order and regularity in the appearance which we entitle "nature". We could never find them in appearances had we not ourselves, by the nature of our own mind, originally set them there.

    Order   Perception   Mind  
  • I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for tens of thousands of years. Having that experience was necessary to my perception of how photography can look at the changes humanity has brought about in the landscape. My work does become a kind of lament.

    "As nature bleeds, Edward Burtynsky gets the big picture" by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. July 06, 2005.
  • Impatience can be very good by helping us not put up with tyranny, but it can distort our view of what is possible and how to bring about change. We have to cultivate patience so that our perception isn't distorted.

  • All perception is a gamble.

  • The themes that run through all my work are that consciousness is the ultimate reality; and that by understanding consciousness, you understand everything about yourself, about perception, about creativity, about behavior, about relationships. By understanding consciousness, you have the ability to create anything in your world. And you have the ability to influence also the collective consciousness to not only bring about personal healing, but social transformation, and ultimately healing our planet, which happens to be extremely wounded.

    Source: bigthink.com
  • Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.

    Order   Perception   Want  
  • Without raising human consciousness, whatever we do in the world will only lead to more and more suffering.

  • There is a common perception that there are two alternative libertarian positions on immigration: government-controlled borders and open borders. Nothing could be further from the truth. There is only one libertarian position on immigration, and that position is open immigration or open borders.

  • If you can't change reality, change your perceptions of it.

  • It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

  • This common and unfortunate fact of the lack of adequate presentation of basic ideas and motivations of almost any mathematical theory is probably due to the binary nature of mathematical perception. Either you have no inkling of an idea, or, once you have understood it, the very idea appears so embarrassingly obvious that you feel reluctant to say it aloud.

    Motivation   Math   Ideas  
  • It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

    Nature   Animal   Men  
    Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.304, Univ of California Press
  • Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.

    Alfred de Musset (2012). “The Confession of a Child of the Century”, p.50, tredition
  • Music should be used for the perception of God, not jitterbugging.

  • By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature.

    Angel   Men   Sharks  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.74, Harvard University Press
  • Oh, that," said the king with a shrug. "That isn't your honor, Costis. That's the public perception of your honor. It has nothing to do with anything important, except perhaps for manipulating fools who mistake honor for its bright, shiny trappings. You can always change the perceptions of fools.

  • Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.

  • The ability of big money to shape perceptions - where you have four anti-climate lobbyists for every single member of the House and Senate - is a big factor.

    "Al Gore: 'The message still has to be about the reality we're facing'". Interview with Brad Plumer, www.washingtonpost.com. September 12, 2011.
  • The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own destruction; he has not permitted in his works any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system at some determinate period of time; but we may rest assured, that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by the laws now existing, and that it is not indicated by any thing which we perceive.

    John Playfair, Adam Ferguson, Gordon Younger Craig (1997). “James Hutton & Joseph Black: Biographies”
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