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What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort read more
What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are. -C. S. Lewis.
It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also read more
It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. -Ellen Glasgow.
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. -Ellen Glasgow.
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -Henri Bergson.
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -Henri Bergson.
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. -Epictetus.
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. -Epictetus.
Where we've gotten mixed up is that we believe actions follow belief. But experience creates belief.. N. Smith -Rev Cecil read more
Where we've gotten mixed up is that we believe actions follow belief. But experience creates belief.. N. Smith -Rev Cecil Williams.
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, read more
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.
Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives me an idea of prophecy.
Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives me an idea of prophecy.
