Perceive Quotes

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.

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived.

The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.

The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.

Because of the pot the water appears to be divided into two parts; because of the pot you seem to perceive an inside and an outside.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

A good fighter must sense rather than perceive his chance to strike.

Deep down we all suspect that something is very wrong with the way we perceive life but we try very, very hard not to notice it. And the way we remain blind to our frightful condition is through an obsessive and pathological denial of being.

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.