Bridge Quote by Diane Ackerman

We become in part what our senses take in.

— Eknath Easwaran

“We make sense of the world intentionally. Faced with chaos, we seek or make the familiar, and build up the world with it. Babies…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Because we see things, always, through the filter of who we are. We absorb the world and make sense of it on our own…

— Kathryn Kennish

Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and…

— Jean Houston

We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature;…

— Lewis Thomas

“When we limit our experience to what we perceive, we let our senses define our existence. Unless we are willing to step out of…

— Vint Virga

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

— Thomas Merton

We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already…

— Henry Miller

The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.

— Abraham Flexner

We discover ourselves through others.

— Carl Jung

“Each of us possesses five fundamental, enthralling maps to the natural world: sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell. As we unravel the threads that bind…

— Ellen Meloy

Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us the knowledge…

— Blaise Pascal