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"How does one stay mindful? Where feelings are known as they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. Thoughts are known as they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. Perceptions are known they arise, known as they persist, known as they pass away. This is how a monk stays awake."
"These disturbing phenomena [Extra Sensory Perception] seem to deny all our scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming."
"Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations."
"You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody else’s, not something that you have been told, because there is no teacher and no follower."
"I don't believe there is a clash between cultures. I believe there is a clash between perceptions of each other."
"Everything is Spirit - in essence, though hidden in manifestation. If you had the perception, you would see God in everything."
"As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around, you come to see that every perceived problem appearing "out there" is really nothing more than a misperception within your own thinking."
"Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious"
"Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion"
"It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view."
"There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions."
"Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things."
"Contrary to what phenomenology- which is always phenomenology of perception- has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be tempted into believing, the thing itself always escapes."
"It's all in the mind."
"The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends."
"Don't try to change the world. First, change yourself or rather, your self-perception, and you find the world automatically corresponding to the level of your understanding. You will find that it has always been you who set the pace and depth of your experience by recognizing and honoring your true nature."
"Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us."
"In exactly the same way, ... scatter your body, your feeling, your perception, your predispositions, your discriminative consciousness, break them up, knock them down, cease to play with them, apply yourself to the destruction of craving for them. Verily, ... the extinction of craving is Nirvana."
"Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception"
"There is no truth. There is only perception."
