Quotes about Perception

Spiritual leaders must help their people see beyond God's acts to recognize the way God consistently works with his people, time and time again. To do this, spiritual leaders must develop their own understanding and recognition of God's activity in their midst.

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.

Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events.

Remember, mystery isn't something that you cannot understand—it is something that you can endlessly understand! There is no point at which you can say, "I've got it." Always and forever, mystery gets you!

God comes to you disguised as your life

Our first experience of life is primarily felt in the *body.* ... We know ourselves in the security of those who hold us and gaze upon us. It's not heard or seen or thought it's felt. That's the original knowing.

We always become what we behold; the presence that we practice matters.

But once we become practiced at a contemplative worldview, a "thisness" way of seeing, there is nothing trivial anymore and all is grace.

The game is over once we see clearly because evil succeeds only by disguising itself as good, necessary, or helpful.

God can most easily be lost by being thought found.

most people do not see things as they are, they see things as they are!

Once we begin to learn the contemplative mind, we realize it is almost the natural way of seeing—and we have unlearned it! It is quite natural, as we see in children before the age of six or seven when they start judging and analyzing and distinguishing things one from another.