Essays pertaining to means of sensing, consequences of sensing, or descriptions of sensed events.
Now, isn''t imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders, strange beasts and birds, angels, cherubim and seraphim. And it has to be exercised. No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.
Mark Twain
So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
Virginia Woolf
All one has to do is open your eyes and see the incredible suffering of individuals of this world. We protect ourselves from the horror by putting comforting images in our vision. Each of us hurt those around us everyday in innumerable small ways. Sometimes in big ways. I''m here to say that these "protective" images are hurting us even worse. Illusions that prevent us from becoming what we should become. A culture is a shield but it's facing towards you. We hide behind our culture when we should be standing joy. The truth is our own felt experience and there is no hiding from it.
And mind you, emotions are among the toughest things in the world to manufacture out of whole cloth; it is easier to manufacture seven facts than one emotion.
Mark Twain
Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
William James
Is not every aspect of our consciousness a type of feeling?
Physical Feelings
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
To listen is to do nothing to prevent yourself from seeing completely
Jiddu Krishnamurti
To listen means one''s mental chatter must be silent.
Don''t try to stop chattering, that is impossible. Instead take action. Listening is an action.
Once you begin to listen actively, thought chatter dies down, and listening and seeing become one.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Oscar Wilde
Learn to see, and then you''ll know that there is no end to the new worlds of our vision.
Carlos Castaneda
Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
...the common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn''t indicate or promise, and which the other kind couldn''t detect.
Mark Twain
