Thomas Harris Quotes

Reality is mind-made.

The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression.

We all see only that which we are trained to see.

The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend

Wherever there is a conscious mind, there is a point of view.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

What we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we understand.

Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions.

We see only what we know.

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

The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters.

You see what you expect to see, Severus.

Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting.

We each create our world by what we choose to notice, creating a world of distinction that makes sense to us. We then 'see' the world through the self we have created.

At any moment in time, our reality is based on whatever we focus on.

We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

Some people see what they want to see.

I think perception is important.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

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.

I wish the children could be taught early on that our thinking creates our experience.