altering perception Quotes

I became a chameleon. My color didn't change. But I could change your perception of my color.

To change the way you see things is already to change things themselves.

Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around?

I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off. You either love them or you hate them, and that's because they dissolve world views. And if you like the experience of having your entire ontological structure disappear out from under you, if you think that's a thrill, you'll probably love psychedelics.

Would it be possible for me to see something from up there?" asked Milo politely. "You could," said Alec, "but only if you try very hard to look at things as an adult does." Milo tried as hard as he could, and, as he did, his feet floated slowly off the ground until he was standing in the air next to Alex Bings. He looked around very quickly and, an instant later, crashed back down to the earth again. "Interesting, wasn't it?" asked Alex. "Yes, it was," agreed Milo, rubbing his head and dusting himself off, "but I think I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.

There is no 'thing' to let go of, but a concept, an idea of an ego that burdens us. As soon as we posit a 'thing' to let go of, we're in trouble. We need to change our view of reality, not attack a nonexistent entity.

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality," says one of my favorite Byzantine mystics. I did this when a child; I do it now as well in the most creative moments of my life.

Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope.

I kinda like messing with perception a little bit. Kind of what drugs do sometimes, and drinking. I mean, you know, you mess with your mind a little bit to see life from different angles. Within reason, if you can handle it.

You can expand your reality by developing new ways of perceiving.

You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on.

One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.

It's a different way of looking at the world. Your life isn't about rights. It's about responsibilities."--Mr Bill Berkowitz

At times the mirror increases a thing’s value, at times denies it.

Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive.

My greatest wish is that a certain way of looking at the world, a way I show in all of my books, gets into my readers' heads, and slowly alters their perception.

Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace.

Remember: in order for a perception to change one must be frustrated in one's actions or change one's purpose.

The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way.

I needed to change the lens through which I viewed everything familiar.