Preception Quotes & Sayings

Gwen frowned, "I assure you, sir, it is quite cool."
"It isn't," Ferus replied. "what you feel is the etheric energy that courses through the crystal. But your sensation of it is ... something your mind was not sure what to do with, when you first encountered it. A wonderful place the mind, but if it has any kind of disappointing failure it's that it always attempts to put new things into the context of things which are familiar to it. So your mind apparently decided, upon encountering this new sensation, that it might just as well label it 'cold' and get on with your day. — Jim Butcher

There is but one reality; that is true - but the two of you experience it in slightly different ways. The older you get, I should think, the more you will come to understand that the universe is very much a looking glass. — Jim Butcher

Actors are people who are doing a job they want to do, which isn't the case for many of the people who watch what we do. — Martin Freeman

She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception. — George Eliot

The terrain of the mysteries is the ordinary. To seek out mystery, we don't have to go anywhere. We must simply change our preception, our description, our consciousness of where we are. — Starhawk

It's weird: you do a TED talk on something, and people think that you suddenly have a lot of answers around the topic. — Chris Milk

In the year 3000, everything will be instant. — Dane Cook

With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit. — Gautama Buddha

Is a man truly what he see himself to be?'
'Only if what he sees is true. — Lloyd Alexander

Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations. — Mason Cooley

Liberation does not concern the person, for liberation is freedom from the person. Basically the disciple and teacher are identical. Both are the timeless axis of all action and preception. The only difference is that one 'knows' himself for what he is while the other does not. The idea of being a person, an ego, is nothing other than an image held together by memory. — Jean Klein