Thirty years of spiritual practice has given me the realization that emotions are based on our perceptions, whether or not they are based on reality.
Remember that our reactions are a product of our perceptions, and our perceptions are a result of what is at the center of our life.
Constant reminding ourselves that we not see with our eyes but with our synergetic eye-brain system working as a whole will produce constant astonishment as we notice, more and more often, how much of our perceptions emerge from our preconceptions.
Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete.
Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own.
I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.
Fashion is not trivial. It's a huge industry and a big part of our lives. Fashion is about us - how we look and present ourselves, how we can change ourselves, and our perceptions. You can dress up to be quite glorious creatures - it's all a very important part of life.
People want to work with somebody who feels shame, who worries about the perceptions of others. Dishonesty is something we don't like in others.
Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong. However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man's perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency; that man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.