#perception

"Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so does a man develop in himself soul and spiritual organs of perception through which the soul and spiritual worlds are opened to him. For those who do not have such higher senses, these worlds are dark and silent, just as the bodily world is dark and silent for a being without eyes and ears."

"Most of us go through each day looking for what we saw yesterday And, not surprisingly, that is what we find."

"There is no stress. It is a misinterpretation of a situation. Just change your perception and stress will melt away."

"To make my meal in a box taste better, I decided to tweak the logo, rather than the ingredients."

"A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you’re going to regret it."

"It's all in the mind."

"The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it."

"Sometimes your light shines so bright that it blinds people from seeing who you really are."

"Life is 10 percent what you make itand 90 percent how you take it."

"In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art."

"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough"

"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise."

"The more I see, the less I know for sure."

"Christ delves far beyond the means of superficiality, not simply because of his immaculate love, but also because he considers the distinct cases of each individual rather than withholding a broadened perception by use of stereotypes."

"We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream."

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

"When I win, it’s because I’m skilled. When I lose, it’s because my opponent is lucky. But when I fall in love, it’s because I’m lucky and she’s skilled."

"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it."

"I mean that the reason God seems to act in ways that make no sense to us is that our perceptions are wrong. Our expectations are subtly twisted. We long for things that harm us and run from the things that grow and heal us. We think good is bad and bad is good. God acts rightly, but to us, it seems confusing. Or sometimes plain wrong."

"The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can [...] be closed with a shout of recognition."