Perception Quotes
Enlightenment has nothing to do with being spiritual. Being spiritual is just an idea - it's another ring of perception.
Nirvana and enlightenment exist just on the other side of your sensory perceptions and your thoughts.
Something in you wants to go beyond, wants to be free from this endless round of perception. Enlightenment is that.
Self discovery doesn't not seek to bring you answers about your personal life or philosophically comfort you about life and death. What it does is bring you into reality as perception itself.
Before perception, before a preceiver, existence was - is. This is the consciousness that we refer to as nirvana, God, eternity.
Some people get tired of continual perception of the finite universe. They feel the perception of the universe over and over in variant forms is kind of an unhappy condition, because it doesn't last.
The human field of perception is not the only band of perception. Nor is it necessarily the best; there is no such thing in infinity. Infinity does not label.
All the universes are bound together by a web, a matrix, which is our perception. And our perception actually has colors; it has bands. We call them bands of attention.
Molecules don't have patterns. You create a pattern by the perception of something. The continuity of awareness is your perceptual field. Existence only occurs through the act of perception.
Perception not only defines existence but it creates existence. It gives it form. Without perception there is no existence.
There is no continuity at all. The universe isn't any particular way. It strictly depends upon perception.
Everything is perception. A hallucination is a perception of a certain reality. It is a perception of a certain state of mind.
The continuity of perception is an individualized being, when that continuity is lost, the being no longer exists as they have been.
Those who dissolve their body of perception completely are absorbed into what we would call nirvana.
This particular world is not really a world, it's a perception that you are having at the moment.
From infinite awareness, something comes forward, a sense of infinite awareness and finite awareness. That perception is the birth of a being.
Perception is, in essence, who we are. We are what we perceive. What we perceive defines who we are.
Self is the perception of perception. Beyond self there's no perception of perception.
There are many great bands of perception in the universe. There are both organic and inorganic bands of perception.
There is the experience of enlightenment, to be very aware of what lies beyond the boundaries of cognitive perception, reflection and self-awareness as seen by the personality.
Within the human frequency of perception, what you see is what you get. I would classify the bottom of the band as severe unhappiness, depression and alimentation.
Mysticism is concerned primarily with moving our awareness field from the beginning of the band of perception, the human band, up to the enlightened bands of perception.
There have been people who have categorized the bands of perception in different yogic systems. It gives them pleasure to create names and orders and to make catalogs. Human beings like that.
As a human being you are capable of a higher level of perception than you may now be cognizant of. You are not really who you think you are. There are many selves inside you, not just one.
You have been programmed, brainwashed to see life in very specific forms. Life is endless and we are a body of perception. We are an awareness that is endless. The universe is only perception.
Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete.
With the power of one's will we stop thought and move into alternate forms of perception. We gain that power through practicing very, very, very hard each day when we meditate to stop our thoughts.
What we're seeking to do is internalize perception. Perception is very much involved with the senses and the mental processes and the emotional processes.
Our current perception is very cloudy and all screwed up. As our perception increases through meditation, we're seeing life more correctly.
To increase the flow of kundalini that will alter our perception, it is necessary to clarify the purpose of one's being. This is to come to understand dharma.
If the world does not shine brightly, even just the physical, sensual perception after meditation, you have not meditated. You have sat and thought of things that were not real.
If we try and direct our lives with only our limited rationalistic thoughts and our sense perceptions, then our actions and our activities will not be prefect.
When you die you pass into inner worlds and continue to perceive. Death is not the dissolution of the self. Death is rather just a change in perception.
If you can die, you are confused because death is a perception of something ending and something else obviously beginning, which means we're still hung up on qualities.
Death is simply a change in perception. It is not an end to perception as a finite being.
Enlightenment, meditation is really a shift in perception. It's not a thing that you go and do or become, since you're already that.
An enlightened person lives in the world, passes through the ten thousand states of mind, but they are not bound by them. They can go beyond perception.
The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.
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.
Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry on earth, though he be surrounded with bread".
To begin your commitment to new perceptions, start by paying attention to attack thoughts toward yourself and others.
A soul subject is something that resonates with you deeper than the intellect can reach...a multi-sensory perception...a recognition of a new freedom that is calling you.
A new species is being born inside each one of us. Eventually, we will all express the perceptions and values of this new species.
What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.
Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say
To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a dead monkey-and therefore did not become one of our ancestors.