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Vision and Perception
~ Quotations and Sutra Sayings


“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
“All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”
~ Edgar Allan Poe, A Dream Within a Dream
“We are such stuff As dreams are made on,

and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.”

~ William Shakespeare




Vision and Perception Quotations and Sutra Sayings

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

only when you look into your heart.

Who looks outside, dreams.

Who looks inside, awakens.”

~ Carl Jung
“Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.”

~ Jonathan Swift
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

What is essential is invisible to the eye.”

~ Antoine de Saint Exupery
“Seeing the Invisible is Knowing the Ineffable.”

~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings
“Nothing’s impossible for the Invisible.”
Our greatest challenges foreshadow our greatest possibilities.
Everything’s possible when nothing’s inevitable.”
~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings
“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
“Perception is a mirror, not a fact.
And what I look on is my state of mind,
reflected outward.”
~ A Course In Miracles [ACIM]
“I saw the angel in the marble
and carved until I set him free.”
~ Michelangelo
“Where there is no vision, people perish.”

~ Proverbs 29:18
“True vision is insight, not eyesight.”
~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings
“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
”Shut your eyes so the heart may become your eye,

and with that vision look upon another world.”

~ Rumi
“Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision

to recognize it as such.”

~ Henry Miller
“Everyone takes the limits of his own vision

for the limits of the world.”

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

“The most pathetic person in the world

is someone who has sight,

but has no vision.”

~ Helen Keller
“Let the waters settle,

you will see stars and moon

mirrored in your Being.”

~ 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
“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
“As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind,

so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”

~ Helen Keller
“Truth (satya) implies Love. – – –
Devotion to this Truth is the sole justification for our existence. – –
Without (Love) it is impossible to observe any principles or rules in life.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi
”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

“People think that they see,

but they don’t.”

~ Henry Moore
“There are many paths to the top of the mountain,

but the view is always the same.”

~ Chinese Proverb
“As a man is, so he sees.

As the eye is formed, such are its powers.”

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

~ Aristotle
“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