Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward. A Course In Miracles
To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself. Henri Bergson (1859-1941)
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through chinks of his cavern. William Blake (1757-1827)
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ''creative observation.'' Creative viewing. William Burroughs (1914-1997)
However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is --in other words, not a thing, but a think. Penelope Fitzgerald (1917-)
Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them. Oliver Wendel Holmes (1809-1894)
Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them. Chogyam Trungpa
Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives. Trinidad Hunt