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
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
—Mark Twain
A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
—Jackie Kennedy
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald
Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
—Jack London