Quotes about Perception

We see what we are ready to see, expect to see, and even desire to see.

The God-image, the self-image, and the world-image are deeply connected. Normally, when one of them changes, the other two have to readjust. So, when our God-image changes, then we have to change. When our world-image is adjusted, we are confused or even depressed for a while.

Some say that FEAR is merely an acronym for "false evidence appearing real.

It's not the idea that we hear, as much as the positive or negative energy behind it.

To have a spiritual life is to recognize early on that there is always a similarity and coherence between the seer and the seen, the seekers and what they are capable of finding. You will seek only what you have partially already discovered and seen within yourself as desirable. Spiritual cognition is invariably re-cognition.

Mystery is not something that you cannot understand, but it is something that is endlessly understandable! It is multilayered and pregnant with meaning and never totally admits to closure or resolution.

We become what we are willing to see.

Your image of God creates you. Your image of God creates you. Your image of God creates you.

the eyes with which you will look back at God will be the same eyes with which God first looked at you.

They look like the oppressors, but have no doubt they are really the oppressed.

God's greatest ally is reality itself. God's greatest revelation is what is (see Romans 1:20)—not what we want it to be, and not even what it should be—not abstract theories but concrete encounters.

You cannot know anything spiritually by saying it is a not-that : you can only know it by meeting it in its precise and irreplaceable thisness and honoring it there.