Sensory Awareness Quotes

Children notice things first, people later.

How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?

The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing today which is called fiction contains such a poverty of language, such triteness, that it is a shrunken, diminished world we enter, poorer and more formless than the poorest cripple deprived of ears and eyes and tongue. The writer's responsibility is to increase, develop our senses, expand our vision, heighten our awareness and enrich our articulateness.

The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable or otherwise, but they are also a means to knowledge - and are, indeed, your only actual means to knowledge.

The human body is amazing," she said. If you deprive it of one sensory input, the other senses take over, almost instantly.

First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.

Haldir had gone on and was now climbing to the high flet. As Frodo prepared to follow him, he laid his hand upon the tree beside the ladder: never before had he been so suddenly and so keenly aware of the feel and texture of a tree's skin and of the life within it. He felt a delight in wood and the touch of it, neither as forester nor as carpenter; it was the delight of the living tree itself.

When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole.

Feel the energy of your inner body. Immediately mental noise slows down or ceases. Feel it in your hands, your feet, your abdomen, your chest. Feel the life that you are, the life that animates the body. The body then becomes a doorway, so to speak, into a deeper sense of aliveness underneath the fluctuating emotions and underneath your thinking.

Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would become blind.

I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during their early adult life. Darkness would make them more appreciative of sight; silence would teach them the joys of sound.

To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.

Learn to breathe, learn to speak, but first... learn to feel.

If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!

Live in the moment. Feel everything you want to feel. And maybe have a couple of drinks if you're nervous, I guess.

Don't ignore the five senses in search of a sixth.

The body is our general medium for having a world.

I am thing that thinks: that is, a things that doubts,affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is willing, is unwilling, and also which imagines and has sensory perceptions.

There's an unseen force which lets birds know when you've just washed your car.

Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.

But magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses.

Let your condiments be in the condition of your senses.

Observe your cat. It is difficult to surprise him. Why? Naturally his superior hearing is part of the answer, but not all of it. He moves well, using his senses fully. He is not preoccupied with irrelevancies. He's not thinking about his job or his image or his income tax. He is putting first things first, principally his physical security. Do likewise.

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feelings as to sight?