Dalai Lama Quotes, Feelings Quotes, Perception Quotes

The feeling of being happy or unhappy rarely depends on our absolute state, but on our perception of the situation, on our capacity to be satisfied with what we have.

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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

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No one has ever seen a Republican mass meeting that was devoid of the perception of the ludicrous.

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Most of what's tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience's expectation.

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On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.

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Your beliefs and perceptions determine the boudaries of your world.

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The analogy I like is this imagine being able to see the world but you are deaf, and then suddenly someone gives you the ability to hear things as well - you get an extra dimension of perception.

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The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.

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But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.

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What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.

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Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.

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We ourselves introduce that order and regularity in the appearance which we entitle "nature". We could never find them in appearances had we not ourselves, by the nature of our own mind, originally set them there.

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It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.

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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

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Those who are highly evolved, maintain an undiscriminating perception. Seeing everything, labeling nothing, they maintain their awareness of the Great Oneness. Thus they are supported by it.

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Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.

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For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.

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If you want to shrink something, you must first allow it to expand. If you want to get rid of something, you must first allow it to flourish. If you want to take something, you must first allow it to be given. This is called the subtler perception of the way things are. The soft overcomes the hard. The slow overcomes the fast. Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

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The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.

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There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.

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