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Perceiving your own voice means perceiving your true self or nature. When you and the sound become one, you dont hear the sound; you are the sound. -- Seung Sahn
Perceiving your own voice means perceiving your true self or nature. When you and the sound become one, you don't hear the sound; you are the sound. -- Seung Sahn
Gratitude places you in the energy field of plentitude. Perceiving life in a consciousness of gratitude is literally stepping into another dimension of living. Suddenly the seeming ordinariness of your days takes on a divine sparkle. -- Michael Beckwith
Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine providence in the daily affairs of life, may be the product of a brain adapted to finding patterns in nature. (38) -- Michael Shermer
The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance. -- Michael Crichton
Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak. -- Thomas Fuller
Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. -- William James
All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention. -- Rudolf Arnheim
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it. -- Baron de Montesquieu
All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist. -- Ellsworth Kelly
In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived. -- Samuel Alexander
If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very subtle, the differences in perceiving reality. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated. -- Vera Farmiga
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that. -- David Chalmers
I think it's important that the rest of the world know that we're not all the same and that we don't all have the sort of arrogance it feels like they're perceiving from our leaders. -- James Denton
There are about 700 flavors that you can smell, but only five you can taste. A lot of times what you're perceiving as flavor has nothing to do with palette, but it's more to do with scents. -- Grant Achatz
What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy. -- Samuel Alexander
It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard for me. Many people think dyslexic people see things backwards. They don't see things backwards. -- Bruce Jenner
In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone. -- Gertrude Jekyll
My job as artistic director at the Brighton digital agency Lighthouse is all about trying to show that digital culture is about more than just tools and gadgets - it's about perceiving the societal transformations being brought about by technology. -- Honor Harger
A lot of people who have been perceiving my music have been trying to formulate a genre for it, and I think it's just a natural thing; it doesn't need to be categorized. It doesn't need to be sectioned, if you will. -- King Krule
I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed. -- Christopher Nolan
But I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed. -- Christopher Nolan
The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself. -- Sonia Sotomayor
I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves. -- Annie Lennox
Sometimes the routes leading to feelings of anger are so convoluted and circuitous that it takes enormous skill to discern their original source, or fountainhead. But regardless of the reason for or the source of the anger or the relative ease or complexity in perceiving either the anger or its source - everybody, but everybody, gets angry. -- Theodore Isaac Rubin
I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is material consciousness. At the other end is what we call 'field' consciousness, where a person is at one with the universe, perceiving the universe. Just by looking at our planet on the way back, I saw or felt a field consciousness state. -- Edgar Mitchell
I have a very specific memory of watching 'Singing in the Rain,' and looking at myself in the mirror after watching it and perceiving myself as one of those people that I was just watching on T.V. It was just kind of a knowing that this would be the world that I would enter into. And that's what I did. -- Kat Edmonson
Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking. -- Aristotle
The science is in knowing; the art in perceiving. -- Robert Fripp
My primary process of perceiving is muscular and visual. -- Albert Einstein
You can expand your reality by developing new ways of perceiving. -- Wynn Bullock
In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference. -- Douglas Hofstadter
Transform our way of perceiving things, we transform the quality of our lives. -- Matthieu Ricard
Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends time and space. -- Russell Brand
YouÂ´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you. -- David Eagleman
What people are perceiving will dictate what their life and ultimately what your interaction is. -- Will Smith
Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness. -- Rene Magritte
Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment -- Aristotle
Perception is a vice with which each person is capable of perceiving his or her reality. -- Asa Don Brown
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence. -- Aristotle
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it. -- Baron de Montesquieu
By perceiving ourselves as part of the river, we take responsibility for the river as a whole. -- Vaclav Havel
Our perceiving self is nowhere to be found in the world-picture, because it itself is the world-picture. -- Erwin Schrodinger
Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. -- Albert Einstein
Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit oneâ??s emotions. -- Ayn Rand
Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety? -- John Adams
The Process of becoming unstuck requires tremendous bravery, because basically we are completely changing our way of perceiving reality... -- Pema Chodron
The spirit is often concealed within matter to such an extent that few people are generally capable of perceiving it. -- Wassily Kandinsky
It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
You are the knower of knowledge; you perceive perceiving. Come to this place, and see if any questions remain there within you. -- Mooji
Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving -- Jane Hirshfield
There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration. -- Twyla Tharp
Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
Meditation is the art of life. Meditation is not simply a practice. It is an experience, awareness, and a way of perceiving life. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it. -- Ayn Rand
The basest person is capable of perceiving the weaknesses of the greatest, the most stupid, the errors in the thought of the most intelligent. -- Theodor Adorno
I have seen without perceiving I have been another man Let me pierce the realm of glamour So I know just what I am. -- Van Morrison
The most important knowledge teachers need to do good work is a knowledge of how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their teacher's actions. -- Stephen Brookfield
...[E]very person perceives the world differently. So essentially, there are six billion human versions of reality on this planet, each perceiving its own truth. -- Bruce H. Lipton
The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount to knowing and understanding. -- Rudolf Arnheim
Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to be regarded as obsolete. -- Max Horkheimer
Africa must take the first steps into modernity on its own. There must be a change in mentality. We have to stop perceiving ourselves as beggars. -- James Shikwati
Dimensionality only exists because the mind can perceive life that way, but that's only one simple method that the mind has for perceiving itself, for perceiving life. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe. -- Aldous Huxley
But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure. -- Voltaire
Every society by its own practice of living and by the mode of relatedness, of feelings, and perceiving, develops a system of categories which determines the forms of awareness. -- Erich Fromm
Be fresh and new when perceiving the other. Always look for the highest first, look for the intrinsic beauty and goodness, for the essence of spirit in your partner. -- John Friend
There will always be dissident voices heard in the land, expressing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side and seeking influence without responsibility. -- John F. Kennedy
The fool rushed to certain conclusions. The middling man approached them warily, and with circumspection. And the wise man, perceiving them from afar, decided to go round another way. -- Thomas William Hodgson Crosland
I am perceiving everyone, including myself, as an awakening being who is here to claim his or her birthright to the higher consciousness planes of unconditional love and oneness. -- Ken Keyes Jr.
But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Madame will forgive me for not perceiving her busyness. It is a sign of the highest breeding to be able to be busy whilst appearing idle to the uninformed observer. -- Louis de Bernieres
What you see is real - but only on the particular level to which you've developed your sense of seeing. You can expand your reality by developing new ways of perceiving. -- Wynn Bullock
I sit up and stare with eyes closed, perceiving the infinity of this dimension, so grateful to experience this, comfortable with the idea of this journey either ending shortly or continuing forever. -- Michael Sanders
The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body, and they express its materiality every bit as much as the perceiving consciousness. The symbol is thus a living body -- Carl Jung
A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous ass he would become if he did -- Konrad Lorenz
Unlike puppets we have the possibility of stopping in our movements, looking up and perceiving the machinery by which we have been moved. In this act lies the first steps towards freedom. -- Peter L. Berger
A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous ass he would become if he did. -- Konrad Lorenz
There can be no evolutionary advantage to laying down memories of childhood or perceiving the color of a rose if it doesn't affect the way you're going to move later in life. -- Daniel Wolpert
A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement. -- Deepak Chopra
If you hold a beautiful flower in your hand, you can write a whole book about it. However, you are still just you perceiving and experiencing it from your own point of view. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
Integral reality is the world's transparency, a perceiving of the world as truth: a mutual perceiving and imparting of the truth of the world and of man and of all that transluces both. -- Jean Gebser
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence. -- Alan Watts
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence. -- Alan Watts
There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and good for little, Philip said, "Either is both, and Both is neither. -- Plutarch
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Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you. -- Douglas Adams
For 'The Big Wander,' I probably had ten different outlines before I made myself start writing. I would sleep on each one, thinking it was wonderful, but I would always awake perceiving some flaw. -- Will Hobbs
Custom is, nevertheless, the greatest enchantress, and in a home one of the most benevolent of fairies. A wife was young, and becomes old; it is custom which hinders the husband from perceiving the change. -- Timothy Shay Arthur
We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift. -- Frances McDormand
It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Dreams and waking life are both the same kinds of things. The difference is that dreaming is perceiving free of external constraints, whereas perceiving otherwise is dreaming true. Meaning what you dream about actually happens. -- Stephen LaBerge
Science will...produce the data..., but never the full meaning. For perceiving real significance, we shall need...most of all the brains of poets, [and] also those of artists, musicians, philosophers, historians, writers in general. -- Lewis Thomas

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