Lawrence Durrell Quotes

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

The problem for us is less to discover the way it really is than to see the meaning of the way.

There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.

Reality' is a word with many meanings.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.

I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be.

I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.

There's a million different ways you can look at a moment.

Remember: whatsoever I am saying is not the thing that I want to say to you. Whatsoever I am saying has nothing to do with truth, because truth cannot be said. Whatsoever I am saying is nothing but a hammering. If you become awake, you will see the truth.

The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth.

Before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

Everything I think in life is about context and intention.

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.

We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.

We never know the reality of things: we see only what we are aware of. It is our consciousness that determines the shape of the world around us -- its size, motion and meaning.

Being that can be understood is language.

The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through.

I think that you really get what you recognize is in the universe.