How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.
Umberto EcoTags: perception
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
W.H. AudenTags: perception autobiography sense-of-self
The movie Koyaanisqatsi shows non-commented time-lapse footage and focuses our attention on the very rhythm of our civilized modern life and nature. A marijuana high can do something for a user similar to what this time-lapse footage does. The enhancement of episodic memory and the acceleration of associative streams of memories can alter and enhance our recognition of patterns in our lives in various ways. If we are presented with quick associative chains of past experiences, we can see a pattern in a body of information that is usually not at once presented to our “inner eye” as such.
Sebastian MarincoloTags: perception insightful inspiration drug insight marijuana creative high cannabis pattern-recognition marihuana psychoactive episodic-memory koyaanisqatsi psychedelic time-lapse
Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)
Laura Ingalls WilderTags: perception injustice society culture expectations fairness
When your heart truly adores somebody,
your mind perceives a halo on that man's head.
Tags: perception illusion
The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday become an evil monster, or are you an evil monster that thinks it's a decent girl?"
"Wouldn't I know which one I was?"
"Good God, no. The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.
Tags: truth perception lies self-deception personality good-and-evil villains truth-and-lies
Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?
Stanisław LemTags: life perception existence reality mountain stone
Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.
H. Rider HaggardTags: consciousness perception thinking thought ego helplessness
You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect.
Tsitsi DangarembgaTags: perception observation expectations observations
Miracles... seem to me to rest not so much upon... healing power coming suddenly near us from afar but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that, for a moment, our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there around us always.
Willa CatherTags: perception miracle awareness attention mundane renewal defamiliarization
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