Perceived Reality Quotes

• When I talk about the realm of spirit, happiness, nirvana, enlightenment, I'm not talking about something ideal or imaginary. There are realms of light that exist, that have always existed and will always exist. They're much more solid than the transient perceived reality that you're currently experiencing

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  Frederick Lenz

  Reality   Light   Talking  

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• Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.

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  Steve Young

  Reality   People   Perception  

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• You can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past. They lived in the present. It is their present, not our present, and they don't know how it's going to come out. They weren't just like we are because they lived in that very different time. You can't understand them if you don't understand how they perceived reality.

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  David McCullough

  Past   Reality   Different  

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov.

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• Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives.

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  Peter Watts

  Reality   Rose   Police  

  Peter Watts (2006). “Blindsight”, p.48, Macmillan

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• Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality.

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  Gary Zukav

  Believe   Thinking   Reality  

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• The only reality I can possibly know is the world as I perceive it at this moment. The only reality you can possibly know is the world as you see it at this moment. And the only certainty is that those perceived realities are different. There are as many “real worlds” as there are people!

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  Carl Rogers

  Real   People   Different  

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.

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  Ben Affleck

  Divorce   Reality   Who I Am  

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is not arrogant or egotistical to feel good inside. You had nothing to do with it. It's simply the honest response to clearly perceived Reality.

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  Erich Schiffmann

  Yoga   Reality   Feel Good  

  Erich Schiffmann (2013). “Yoga The Spirit And Practice Of Moving Into Stilln”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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