"Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential."
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"The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see."
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"There is a sort of fair play, and if you can get in touch with that in your life, if you can have that perception, the world will begin to work for you, it will begin to move toward you... Nature loves courage, and it shows you that loves courage because it will remove obstacles."
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"To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination."
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"People are so scared to really voice who they are. They want to be politically correct. Just scared to see what other people's perceptions are."
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"We see the world, not as it is, but as we are -- or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms."
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"There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail."
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"Scientific culture created a framework within which individual mobility was possible without threatening hierarchical work-force allocation. On the contrary, meritocracy reinforced hierarchy. Finally, meritocracy as an operation and scientific culture as an ideology created veils that hindered perception of the underlying operations of historical capitalism."
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"If we don't start acknowledging our correct position as nothing more than a part of the planet as opposed to this perception that we're superior, then we won't have it much longer. We're facing a very turbulent, war-torn, drought-ridden existence for future generations unless we act now."
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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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"Drake just stands for Do Right And Kill Everything"
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"Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them."
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"Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like. Everybody. Somebody would just stick their head in the door and say, "He sounds too Jewish." Or, "He's too tough, he's off-putting. You gotta seduce kids, not scare them out the door.""
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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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"Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation—without the pestilence of panic or fear."
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"Hallucinogens are a value changer...like it or not, it changes your values, it opens up windows (doors of perception.)"
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"True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst. Psychologically, I think it means a release of energy."
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"Logic will never change emotion or perception."
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"Doubts are suppressed by groups... But remember that the internal incentives that shape how the group perceives risks and rewards may be very different from the reality of the risks and rewards in the external marketplace. Those incentives can distort risk perception."
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"A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement."
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