You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light. —Vicomte de Chateaubriand More about this quote Tags: perception superiority Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “perception” Zen attacks that one last thing you hold dear: your precious self-conception. It unravels any notion of a freestanding, unconditional "I" and shows it to be a lie, a fabrication, a construction. True realization, the old masters tell us, takes bone-crushing effort. We pulverize the very skeleton of ego—upon which the meat and skin and organs of our illusions hang—and we do it through intense, hurtle-yourself-off-the-cliffs-and-into-the-chasm practice. —Shozan Jack Haubner in Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk More about this quote Tags: perception effort Buddhism Zen self-conception I Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: silence time words perception communication pausing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane. —Jackie Kennedy More about this quote Tags: perception animals speed camels elephants Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck. —F. Scott Fitzgerald More about this quote Tags: others perception luck Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Age is never so old as youth would measure it. —Jack London More about this quote Tags: perception change youth old age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Zen attacks that one last thing you hold dear: your precious self-conception. It unravels any notion of a freestanding, unconditional "I" and shows it to be a lie, a fabrication, a construction. True realization, the old masters tell us, takes bone-crushing effort. We pulverize the very skeleton of ego—upon which the meat and skin and organs of our illusions hang—and we do it through intense, hurtle-yourself-off-the-cliffs-and-into-the-chasm practice. —Shozan Jack Haubner in Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk More about this quote Tags: perception effort Buddhism Zen self-conception I Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: silence time words perception communication pausing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane. —Jackie Kennedy More about this quote Tags: perception animals speed camels elephants Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck. —F. Scott Fitzgerald More about this quote Tags: others perception luck Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Age is never so old as youth would measure it. —Jack London More about this quote Tags: perception change youth old age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email