Loretta Lynn Quotes

A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.

The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience

As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.

You collect impressions from people, from life, from your own daydreams.

What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!

The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

Everything that we experience every day leaves a long-lasting impression.

What a man sees depends on what he looks at and what his previous experience has taught him to see.

We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like this table and this microphone and so on, but we actually create that in our heads out of the bits of information that hit the back of our eyeballs or hit our eardrums or hit our tongues or whatever.

I discover vision, not as a 'thinking about seeing,' to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that is why for me there can be another's gaze.

Experience alone can decide on truth.

We never see a tree except through the image that we have of it, the concept of that tree; but the concept, the knowledge, the experience, is entirely different from the actual tree. Look at a tree and you will find how extraordinarily difficult it is to see it completely, so that no image, no screen, comes between the seeing and the actual fact. By completely I mean with the totality of your mind and heart, not a fragment of it.

Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?

Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.

One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience. In either case, it reacts automatically to information which you give to it from your forebrain. Your nervous system reacts appropriately to what you THINK or IMAGINE to be 'true.

You may read any quantity of books, and you may almost as ignorant as you were at starting, if you don't have, at the back of yourminds, the change for words in definite images which can only be acquired through the operation of your observing faculties on the phenomena of nature.

With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.

Everything I see is something I haven't memorized.

The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.

To see is to think, and to think is to see.