Posts Tagged ‘Bible Proverbs’

“The Master observes the world,
but trusts his inner vision.
He allows things to come and go.
His heart is as open as the sky.”

~ Lao Tzu

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
What is essential is invisible to the eye.”
~ Antoine de Saint Exupery

“I saw the angel in the marble
and carved until I set him free.”
~ Michelangelo

“If the doors of perception were cleansed
everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.”
~William Blake

“Perception is a mirror, not a fact.
And what I look on is my state of mind,
reflected outward.”
~ A Course In Miracles [ACIM]

“Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.”
~ Jonathan Swift

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
~ Edgar Allan Poe

“Where there is no vision, people perish.”
~ Proverbs 29:18

“True vision is insight, not eyesight.”
~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings

Vision and Perception Quotations and Sutra Sayings

“Let the waters settle,

you will see stars and moon

mirrored in your Being.”
~ Rumi

”Shut your eyes so the heart may become your eye,
and with that vision look upon another world.”
~ Rumi

“Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception
resembles more than anything else
that celestial source from which we all are come.”
~ Michelangelo

“Your vision will become clear
only when you look into your heart.
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.”
~ Carl Jung

“The question is not what you look at,
but what you see.”
”I begin to see an object
when I cease to understand it.”
~ Henry David Thoreau

“Love and fear represent two different lenses
through which to view the world.
Which I choose to use
will determine what I think I see.”
~ Marianne Williamson

”Earth’s crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God:
But only he who sees
takes off his shoes.”
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“The eye with which I see God
is the same eye with which God sees me.”
~ Meister Eckhart

“The eyes of the soul of the multitudes
are unable to endure the vision of the Divine.”
~ Plato

“People only see what they are prepared to see.”
”We are immersed in beauty,
but our eyes have no clear vision.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“People think that they see,
but they don’t.”
~ Henry Moore

“Everyone takes the limits of his own vision
for the limits of the world.”
~ Arthur Schopenhauer

“As a man is, so he sees.
As the eye is formed, such are its powers.”
~ William Blake

“The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight,
but has no vision.”
~ Helen Keller

“As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind,
so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”
~ Helen Keller

”When the sun rises,
do you not see a round disc of fire
somewhat like a guinea?
O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host
crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.”
~ William Blake

“There are many paths to the top of the mountain,
but the view is always the same.”
~ Chinese Proverb

“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile
the moment a single man contemplates it,
bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery

“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 S. Burroughs

“The soul never thinks without a mental picture.”
~ Aristotle

“For light I go directly to the Source of light,
not to any of the reflections.”
~ Peace Pilgrim

“Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision
to recognize it as such.”
~ Henry Miller

“Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness,
we never really experience the universe directly;
we just experience our consciousness of the universe,
our perception of it – so … our only universe is perception.”
~ Alan Moore

“Perception is a mirror not a fact.
And what I look on
is my state of mind, reflected outward.”
~ A Course In Miracles [ACIM]

”The gull sees farthest who flies highest.”
~ Richard Bach

“Everything in the Universe,
throughout all its kingdoms,
is conscious:
i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind
and on its own plane of perception.”
~H. P. Blavatsky

“In the ultimate stillness
Light penetrates the whole realm;
In the still illumination,
There pervades pure emptiness.
When I look back on the
Phenomenal world,
Everything is just
Like a dream.”
~ Han-shan Te-Ch’ing

“We are such stuff As dreams are made on,
and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.”
~ William Shakespeare

“You can’t depend on your eyes
when your imagination is out of focus.”
~ Mark Twain

“Behold:
Reality’s Essence
is Divine Luminescence.”
~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings

“Seeing the Invisible is Knowing the Ineffable.”
~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings

Cast your glance inwardly,
and gaze there ‘til you’ll surely see,
beyond supposed mortality
you’ll ever be Divinity!
~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings