Episode 0948 - Perception & Attitude, Knowing & Freedom, I
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Remarks on selected wisdom quotes about perception & attitude: the critical importance for of interpretation and discernment.
Additional references from Pali Buddha-Dhamma, Advaita Vedanta, Ra Material, core Taoism, transpersonal psychology, Christian & Western metaphysics.
QUOTES ABOUT PERCEPTION:
“It's all in the mind” -- George Harrison
“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are” -- C.S. Lewis
“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change” -- Wayne W. Dyer
“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears” -- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions” -- Stephen R. Covey
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern” -- William Blake
“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception” -- Aldous Huxley
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper” -- W.B. Yeats
“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend” -- Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost
“Humans see what they want to see” -- Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world” -- Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream” -- Edgar Allan Poe
“The more I see, the less I know for sure” -- John Lennon
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves” -- C.G. Jung
(Click on the above link, or here, for audio.)
Remarks on selected wisdom quotes about perception & attitude: the critical importance for of interpretation and discernment.
Additional references from Pali Buddha-Dhamma, Advaita Vedanta, Ra Material, core Taoism, transpersonal psychology, Christian & Western metaphysics.
QUOTES ABOUT PERCEPTION:
“It's all in the mind” -- George Harrison
“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are” -- C.S. Lewis
“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change” -- Wayne W. Dyer
“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears” -- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions” -- Stephen R. Covey
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern” -- William Blake
“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception” -- Aldous Huxley
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper” -- W.B. Yeats
“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend” -- Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost
“Humans see what they want to see” -- Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world” -- Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream” -- Edgar Allan Poe
“The more I see, the less I know for sure” -- John Lennon
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves” -- C.G. Jung
