Top 1200 Doors Of Perception Quotes & Sayings

The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

Your adventure has to be coming out of your own interior. If you are ready for it then doors will open where there were no doors before, and where there would not be doors for anyone else. And you must have courage. It's the call to adventure, which means there is no security, no rules.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

We have to have loving speech. And if we are honest, if we are true, terrorists will open their hearts. Then we practice compassionate listening, and we can learn so much about our own perception and their perception. Only after that can we help remove wrong perception. That is the best way, the only way, to remove terrorism.

The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you.

Perception without the word, which is without thought, is one of the strangest phenomena. Then the perception is much more acute, not only with the brain, but also with all the senses. Such perception is not the fragmentary perception of the intellect nor the affair of the emotions. It can be called a total perception, and it is part of meditation.

Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication.

Tantra is the perception of the oneness and the perfection of all things. Not just the perception of light, but the perception of darkness, seeing God in both beauty and horror.

Everyone has doors in the living room of their lives that they assume are locked. Doors that lead to artistic expression. People say "I have no talent -- I can't dance or sing or paint or write poetry or play an instrument." More often than not the doors are not locked, just closed. One may turn the handle, open the door and pass through into a larger life space.

I hate to be enclosed. I don't like bathroom doors - I don't shut them. In fact, in my house, I have no doors.

Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.

Ideally the performer has a special function. Which is to bring the listener to the edge of that experience and to open the doors of this perception in such a way that those who wish to enter can.

Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.

As we learn we always change, and so our perception. This changed perception then becomes a new Teacher inside each of us.

Doors are going to open-doors you can't even imagine exist.

What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creature… That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will never know again. His doors of perception have not yet been closed. He still experiences the moment he lives in.

...Therefore it is said: 'The perception of a phenomenon IS the perception of the Universal Nature, since phenomena and Mind are one and the same.'

To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.

I offer images-I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached-like the Doors, right? But we can only open the doors-we can't drag people through.

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form.

Self is the perception of perception. Beyond self there's no perception of perception.

The bands of perception vary greatly. There is the human band of perception. There are lots of different bands of perception. Simply because we are in one band of perception, doesn't mean others are not there.

a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as time is only the result of a naive faith in causality - the notion that A in the past caused B in the present, which will cause C in the future, when actually A, B, and C are all part of a pattern that can be truly understood only by opening the doors of perception and experiencing it... in this moment... this supreme moment... this Kairos.

The faster it ran away from me. And I found myself reasoning that perhaps one more beer would unlock the doors of perception.

Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.

Death is simply a change in perception. It is not an end to perception as a finite being.

Everything is perception. A hallucination is a perception of a certain reality. It is a perception of a certain state of mind.

I turn you out of doors tenant desire you pay no rent I turn you out of doors all my best rooms are yours the brain and heart depart I turn you out of doors switch off the lights throw water on the fire I turn you out of doors stubborn desire.

Molecules don't have patterns. You create a pattern by the perception of something. The continuity of awareness is your perceptual field. Existence only occurs through the act of perception.

Power is the thing that holds a band of perception together, and a band of perception is life for those who perceive in that band. If the band of perception were to go away, they would not exist.

We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and the perception of saving dooms a politician. I don't believe perception is reality, or that all Americans think that.

ONE PERCEPTION MUST IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY LEAD TO A FURTHER PERCEPTION

Do you remember that old TV series, Get Smart? Do you remember at the beginning where Maxwell Smart is walking down the secret corridor and there are all of those doors that open sideways, and upside down and gateways and stuff? I think that everyone keeps a whole bunch of doors just like this between themselves and the world. But when you're in love, all of your doors are open, and all of their doors are open. And you roller-skate down your halls together.

Aldous Huxley took the drug mescaline and then chronicled his experience in the book The Doors of Perception. Now, I don't actually think that's the first thing he wrote: he probably wrote 'my brain is melting' ten thousand times, but it was the book that the critics latched on to.

The Word is the master key for the whole world, inasmuch as through its potency the doors of the hearts of men, which in reality are the doors of heaven, are unlocked.

There is obviously a gap between the public's perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite's perception.

She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

I see things differently when I'm focused on opening doors for other people, and more often than not, my doors are opened as well.

God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.

I live for opening doors for the young generation of creators. If we do nothing else with our success, let's open up some doors.

When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

Hallucinogens are a value changer...like it or not, it changes your values, it opens up windows (doors of perception.)

Integrity is what you do behind closed doors or when you think nobody is watching. Integrity is the true essence of who you are, your beliefs and your values. Reputation is the public perception of who you are. It is how others view your integrity or strong moral principles.

Seeking knowledge is like opening doors. And I know the doors are everywhere.

I believe that if doors don't open, make new doors. So I also have started producing quite a bit of things as well.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.

My name has opened doors and slammed doors shut.

ISIS is gaining strength because the perception is that they're winning. And President [Barack] Obama fuels that perception.

For the longest time I studied revenge to the exclusion of all else. I built my first torture chamber in the dark vaults of imagination. Lying on bloody sheets in the Healing Hall I discovered doors within my mind that I'd not found before, doors that even a child of nine knows should not be opened. Doors that never close again. I threw them wide.

For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.

I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.

Perception is a wave. You change as your perception of something changes because you define yourself as a reflection of whatever you happen to perceive.

I'm all about living however you want, but if you make the decision to get married and have children, then you have an obligation to raise them in an environment that isn't going to ruin them, warp their perception of the world, or close doors for them.

There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other.