Raul

“When the eye sees, it simply registers color and shape. All the rest takes place in the mind.”
― Ayya Khema, Who Is My Self?: A Guide to Buddhist Meditation

“Thoreau got up each morning and walked to the woods as though he had never been where he was going to, so that whatever was there came to him like liquid into an empty glass. Many people taking such a walk would have their heads so full of other ideas that it would be a long time before they were capable of hearing or seeing. Most people are blinded by themselves.”
― John Cage, Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists

“Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.”
― Aldous Huxley

“The madman is not only a beggar who thinks he is a king, but also a king who thinks he is a king.”
― Jacques Lacan