"We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us."
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"The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation, neither are they transmitted by book learning. The mystic tradition, any mystic tradition, is of a similar nature, that is, it is dependent on direct perception, a 'knowledge' as permanent as the faculty for receiving it."
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"As we meditate regularly, we let go of the conditioned beliefs and accumulated physical and mental toxicity that cloud our perception of our essential, unbounded nature."
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"You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible."
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"It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception."
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"The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity."
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"I'm a real relationship person - contrary to public perception. I'm either in one or I'm not."
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"This result could have been achieved either by his [God] endowing my intellect with a clear and distinct perception of everything about which I would ever deliberate, or simply by impressing the following rule so firmly upon my memory that I could never forget it: I should never judge anything that I do not clearly and distinctly understand."
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"The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name."
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"Do you really need to mentally label every sense perception and experience? Do you really need to have a reactive like/dislike relationship with life where you are in almost continuous conflict with situations and people? Or is that just a deep-seated mental habit that can be broken? Not by doing anything, but by allowing this moment to be as it is."
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"Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone."
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"The most positive action we can take about the past is to change our perception of it."
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"I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star."
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"Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge."
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"Remember that our reactions are a product of our perceptions, and our perceptions are a result of what is at the center of our life."
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"Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself."
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"After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do."
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"Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment."
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"Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way."
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"What we call a mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations and supposed, though falsely, to be endowed with a perfect simplicity and identity."
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