Quotes about Perception
Miracles are happening all the time, but if your eyes aren't open and your ears aren't open and your mind's not open and your heart's not open - then even though the miracles are there - you're not!
— Marianne Williamson
Every time you wink the stars move.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.
— William Wordsworth
There are times when I draw near enough to touch Him, then I know that He has been there all the time.
— Gloria Gaither
A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth.
— Alphonsus Liguori
We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from.
— Charles Stanley
When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
— Dallas Willard
When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true/sincere.
— Milan Kundera
But don't you know that girls never think of what they are talking about, or rather never talk of what they are thinking about? And they have always ten times more to say to the man they don't care for, than to him they do.
— Maria Edgeworth
It is sometimes fortunate, that the means which are taken to produce certain effects upon the mind have a tendency directly opposite to what is expected.
— Maria Edgeworth
We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined.
— Marianne Williamson
God gives us His strength by giving us His vision of things. Our seeing people as innocent is the only way to achieve God's peace.
— Marianne Williamson