Perception

(157 votes)   Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

A Course In Miracles
Course on Forgiveness Based on Christianity, Eastern Philosophy

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(120 votes)   If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.

William Blake
1757-1827, British Poet, Painter

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(93 votes)   Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ''creative observation.'' Creative viewing.

William S. Burroughs
1914-1997, American Writer

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(81 votes)   Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.

Hans Margolius

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(76 votes)   Any perception can connect us to reality properly and fully. What we see doesn't have to be pretty, particularly; we can appreciate anything that exists. There is some principle of magic in everything, some living quality. Something living, something real, is taking place in everything.

Chogyam Trungpa

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(75 votes)   The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.

Al Neuharth
American publisher, Founder, USA Today

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(71 votes)   Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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(71 votes)   You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.

M. Shawn Cole

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