“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.”
― Theosophy: An Introduction to the Spiritual Processes in Human Life and in the Cosmos
― Theosophy: An Introduction to the Spiritual Processes in Human Life and in the Cosmos
“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.”
― Nervous Conditions
― Nervous Conditions
“The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.”
― Nobody Knows My Name
― Nobody Knows My Name
“We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.”
― The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
― The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“Internal mental experience is not the product of a photographic process. Internal reality is in fact constructed by the brain as it interacts with the environment in the present, in the context of its past experiences and expectancies of the future. At the level of perceptual categorizations, we have reached a land of mental representations quite distant from the layers of the world just inches away from their place inside the skull. This is the reason why each of us experiences a unique way of minding the world. (pp. 166-167)”
― The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are
― The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are
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