#perception

How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#materialism #perception #quality #value #design

In the ultimate stillness Light penetrates the whole realm; In the still illumination, There pervades pure emptiness. When I look back on the Phenomenal world, Everything is just Like a dream. ↗

— Han-shan Te-Ch'ing

#perception #reality #silence #world #dreams

Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality. ↗

— Robin S. Sharma

#nature-of-reality #perception #spiritual-growth #truth #dreams

A snake bites your ankle. Recoiling, you scream. Fearing poison, your mind slips into a dream... ...where a man bites your ankle. Expecting no guile, "Again," softly falls from your lips with a smile. Yet, the man and the snake are the same. Your perception is only to blame. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#judgement #perception #poetry #richelle #richelle-goodrich

I refuse to accept that I have limitations beyond my own belief of boundaries. Perception is all that limits the mind. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#dreams #goals #limitations #limits #perception

Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#black #colors #humanity #individuality #life

Love, far from being blind, is the very emotion that allows us to see. ↗

— Cristina Nehring

#love #passion #perception #love

Too often, it is only love that makes us engaged enough, alert enough, alive enough to see ↗

— Cristina Nehring

#love #passion #perception #love

If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn’t exist in the world around you, at least not in the form that you envision, then you create it so that you can look at it and have it around, or show it to other people who wouldn’t have imagined it because they perceive reality in a more narrow, predictable way. And that’s it. That’s all an artist does. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#artist #perception #reality #art

Presque tous les malheurs de la vie viennent des fausses idées que nous avons sur ce qui nous arrive. Connaître à fond les hommes, juger sainement des événements, est donc un grand pas vers le bonheur." ("Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. To know men thoroughly, to judge events sanely, is, therefore, a great step towards happiness.") [Journal entry, 10 December 1801] ↗

— Stendhal

#reality #reality-check #self-knowledge #self-perception #unhappiness