Paramahansa Yogananda
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything."
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Perceive
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Gabrielle Bernstein
Author, Speaker
"When you choose to perceive Love over fear, life begins to flow."
Douglas Adams
Writer, Humorist
"Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you."
Albert Camus
Philosopher, Writer
"If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us."
Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"If there's a God, we must see him and if there's a soul we must perceive it. Otherwise, it's better not to believe."
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"You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the greatness you perceive in them is your own."
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"I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me."
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"Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind."
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"Through allowing, you become what you are; vast, spacious. You become whole. You are not a fragment anymore, which is how the ego perceives itself. Your true nature emerges, which is one with the nature of God."
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"Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself."
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"The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished."
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"Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins."
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"The mind that perceives the limitation is the limitation."
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"To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself."
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"The reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul."
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"When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole."
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"We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible, except for those who agree with us."
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"It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own."
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"You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to perceive it."
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"Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education."
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"I will go wash; And when my face is fair, you shall perceive Whether I blush or no."
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"The mature person perceives the fruitlessness of rigid, external methodologies."
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"I tend to roll with the punches so if things don't go exactly as planned, I always perceive it as the universe making things the way they should be."
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"The lover is drawn by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which it perceives."
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"As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not received at all."
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