Accepting Quote by S. N. Goenka

As you are aware, no perceptions obtained by the senses are merely sensations impressed on our nervous systems. A peculiar intellectual activity is required…

— Hermann von Helmholtz

“The Buddha teaches that feeling is an inseparable concomitant of consciousness, since every act of knowing is coloured by some affective tone.”

— Bhikkhu Bodhi

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The experience taught me to be present in the real Buddhist sense of paying attention to the moment.

— Sandra Cisneros

All spiritual experiences are sensations in the body. They are simply a graded series of sensations, beginning with the solidity of earth and passing…

— Sri Anirvan

“When our poor, faultily sensitive vision can perceive a thing, we say that it is visible. When the nerves of touch can feel it,…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“I've noticed and experienced, it is our perception based on what we have learned, read and on what we believe, that shapes the things…

— Nathaniel

“When Siddhartha left the grove, where the Buddha, the perfected one, stayed behind, where Govinda stayed behind, then he felt that in this grove…

— Hermann Hesse

That which is seen and that which is touched are of a dream-like and illusion-like nature. Because feeling arises together with the mind, it…

— Shantideva

“We do not experience things as they really are! We experience things only through a filter and that filter determines what information will enter…

— David Wolfe

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within us. And…

— Audre Lorde

The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.

— Annie Dillard