Quotes on Doors Of Perception

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

Hallucinogens are a value changer...like it or not, it changes your values, it opens up windows (doors of perception.)

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.

When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite.

a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as time is only the result of a naive faith in causality - the notion that A in the past caused B in the present, which will cause C in the future, when actually A, B, and C are all part of a pattern that can be truly understood only by opening the doors of perception and experiencing it... in this moment... this supreme moment... this Kairos.

What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creature… That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will never know again. His doors of perception have not yet been closed. He still experiences the moment he lives in.