The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
There are many things which can not be expressed by words.
There are many words which can not be spelled by human tongue.
There are many tongues which utter one single truth.
There are people who desperately want to change the world.
I wonder if it could be measured, because the world is already
in the state of continuously change since the beginning of time.
Or they may just want their names etched nicely on men history.
The potential of controlling and living a successful life according to your terms depends on how you think. Your perception is your world. You can create the life you want and in fact, you can even shape the way you want it.
The definition of a professional is one who does a job well even when they don't like it.
Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though.
[C]hange your thinking, your interpretation of he world, change the way you see! To change the way you see is to change the world. (50)
How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of "green"?
Land and water are not really separate things, but they are separate words, and we perceive through words.
A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.
Too often, it is only love that makes us engaged enough, alert enough, alive enough to see
Not because we think that it's still about to happen,
thus makes our future life as though yet to be exist.
Human mind can't yet perceive the nature of future.
All humans are alike and all humans are equal. It is just the perception of the eye that sees any different.
Love is more abundant than we could possibly imagine. Just like there is more air than we could possibly breathe in, there is more love than we could possibly perceive.
People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to think better about problems of evidence, decision making, responsibility and ethics that life throws up.
Love - not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love sees through them to the secret inside.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough
Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.
In this treacherous world
Nothing is the truth nor a lie.
Everything depends on the color
Of the crystal through which one sees it
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.
There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appear
obvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact opposite
may also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is but
perception, viewed through various prisms of context.
Some people say, ‘Do not judge the book by its cover!’ Well, I say not to judge at all. People can say anything they want to say, but for me, cover does matter.
Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.
Smartass Disciple: But, you said that it's the truth??
Master of Stupidity: O Yes. That is yesterday's truth.
Why does truth carry such a dreadful face? Why does subjugation carry such a happy mask? It becomes sad when people understand that they can lead a better life as long as they bow their heads, ignoring the truth.
Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you’re going to regret it.
The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating.
It's not strength, it's PERCEPTION that makes you stronger. If you change how you SEE it, you'll change how you FEEL about it.
A day is a day. It’s just a measurement of time. Whether it’s a good day or a bad day is up to you. It’s all a matter of perception.
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
I mean that the reason God seems to act in ways that make no sense to us is that our perceptions are wrong. Our expectations are subtly twisted. We long for things that harm us and run from the things that grow and heal us. We think good is bad and bad is good. God acts rightly, but to us, it seems confusing. Or sometimes plain wrong.
World with various situations has various relations,don't give conclusions with your perception.
The master said You must write what you see.
But what I see does not move me.
The master answered Change what you see.
The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can [...] be closed with a shout of recognition.
While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation of knowledge. Understanding cannot be realized by listening or reading about the realization of others. It must be achieved firsthand via substantive, direct perception in the moment.
Not to understand is profound; to understand is shallow. Not to understand is to be on the inside; to understand is to be on the outside.
What do we know of our mothers? I thought I knew her. But I'd seen her as a child sees a good mother-pure, transparent, incapable of deception.
Your perception of the world and the way you see yourself in it has created within your mind a concept, a philosophy, of the way you believe things to be.
Even the water, grey and listless as it tossed against the harbour wall, seemed fixed in time; as if peering hard enough into its depths would reveal the tips of Peter’s fingers, himself still swaying underwater, cradled in the sea’s mouth.
People sometimes get so lost in their own beliefs that they fail to gain truth and understanding. You can't get the whole picture just by relying on your own perception. Never be afraid of the truth.
By changing how you perceive things and how you act upon those perceptions, you will change your life.
No one is an outside observer of nature,
We're defined by our environment and our interaction with that environment - by our ecology. And that ecology is necessarily relative, historical and empirical.
The Law Polarity decrease that everything has an opposite it's the flip side of the coin, you're right my left, consider this next time you disagree with someone because their right from their point of view.
I love you because you loved me first. Yet you love me, saying I loved you first. Funny, our love thrives believing the other person started it.
..the senses do not give us a picture of the world directly; rather they provide evidence for checking hypotheses about what lies before us. Indeed we may say that a perceived object is a hypothesis, suggested and tested by sensory data.
Why then should witless man so much misweene
That nothing is but that which he hath seene?
Though people are laughing at the dirt surrounding you, they are missing to see the seeds also planted, growing silently within.
Our perceptions shape whether challenges are obstacles that block our path to success or important arrows that steer us in the direction we want to go.
Visual impressions are greatly intensified and the eye recovers some of the perceptual innocence of childhood, when the sensum was not immediately and automatically subordinated to the concept. Interest in space is diminished and interest in time falls almost to zero.
Anybody that fears and detests witchcraft is not happy with science and technology.
Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world.
Love is the perception of perfection beyond the protection of our projection.
To see through the illusion of duality, remember that fear and darkness have no substance in themselves, for they do not indicate the presence of a second universal force, but are only names given to the one Light unperceived.
The way to embody love completely is to see and appreciate life just as it is, and not as you believe, fear, or desire it to be.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free
there can be no failure to a human who has not lost his courage, unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, human does not lose his being in the society in which he lives
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
Andrei, did you like the opera?"
"Not particularly."
"Andrei, do you see what you're missing?"
"I don't think I do, Kira. It's all rather silly. And useless."
"Can't you enjoy things that are useless, merely because they are beautiful?"
"No. But I enjoyed it."
"The music?"
"No. The way you listened to it.
Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.
Eyes that are blind have no way to tell the loveliness of faces and features; eyes with no pupils have no way to tell the beauty of colored and embroidered silks.
We can't expect a blind man to appreciate beautiful patterns or a deaf man to listen to bells and drums. And blindness and deafness are not confined to the body alone - the understanding has them, too.
My father says that there is only one perfect view - the view of the sky straight over our heads, and that all these views on earth are but bungled copies of it.
You can capture me with your beauty, only if you are a brilliant photographer.
As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
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