Michael Davis Quotes

The world is full of sounds. We just don't usually hear them as music.

When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.

Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

You have to make an audience experience with the ears as well as their eyes.

When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing.

Reality is an acquired taste.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.

Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.

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.

Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.

Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

My experience is what I agree to attend to.

Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.

If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of view and both be right. The difference of our positions will show stars in your window I cannot even imagine. Your sky may burn with light, while mine, at the same moment, spreads beautiful to darkness. Still we must choose how we separately corner the circling universe of our experience. Once chosen, our cornering will determine the message of any star and darkness we encounter.

Life can show up no other way than that way in which you perceive it.

Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.

Our life experiences area result of where our attention takes us.

Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.

We think of color as a thing that we’re receiving. And if you go into one of the Skyspaces, you can see that it’s possible to change the color of the sky. Now, I obviously don’t change the color of the sky, but I changed the context of vision.