True Perception Quotes

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them.

But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye.

I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things

Dreams and waking life are both the same kinds of things. The difference is that dreaming is perceiving free of external constraints, whereas perceiving otherwise is dreaming true. Meaning what you dream about actually happens.

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

When you have once gained sight, it is impossible to feign blindness.

If we live truly, we shall see truly.

The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees - perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss - an undistorted and more veritable world.

If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.

It’s a rare man who is taken for what he truly is.

As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.