Mutual Perception Quotes

...reality, the name we give to the common experience.

When my daughter was a senior in high school, I remember noticing, almost in passing, that her friends were very cute. Which made me realize her friends' fathers probably found Molly very cute.

They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely they had been lifted off the earth to sit next each other in mid-ocean, and see every detail of each others' faces, and hear whatever they chanced to say.

Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.

Consider those whom you call your enemies and figure out what they should call you.

The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.

When two people are together, they are not two but six: what each one is, what each one thinks he or she is, and what each one thinks the other is. And what is true for people is also true for countries and organisations.

Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.

Whenever I speak, I talk to the collective consciousness of my audience.

If he thinks he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously think I see him do it, then the thing happens.