"There's nothing wrong with the world; what's wrong is our way of looking at it."

-- Henry Miller

"Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning."

-- Marlo Thomas

"We want our minds to be clear -- not so we can think clearly, but so we can be open in our perceptions."

-- M.C. Richards

... the world gets distorted when our spiritual needs are thwarted."

-- Michael Lerner

"... to be God is never perceiving anything as separate from ourselves."

-- Jack Schwarz

"Let go of the story and perceive the simple aliveness of this moment."

-- Eckhart Tolle

"We usually only see the things we are looking for -- so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not."

-- Eric Hoffer

"It i far more important that one's life should be perceived than that it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord."

-- Maurice Maeterlinck

"... the real is solely what you experience, not what you think."

-- Amaury de Riencourt

"Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions."

-- Emerson

"When people come to us in therapy expressing pain and dissatisfaction, the limitations which they experience are, typically, in their representation of the world and not in the world itself."

-- John Grinder & Richard Bandler

"Be careful how you interpret the world; it is like that."

-- Erich Heller

"Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."

-- William James

"The more self-centered and selfish we are, the less we see."

-- Taizan Maezumi Roshi

"Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit."

-- Gandhi