🗄️The Doors of Perception (Classics To Go)¶

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To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves. ^ref-646

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The mind does its perceiving in terms of intensity of existence, profundity of significance, relationships within a pattern. ^ref-36546

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The mind was primarily concerned, not with measures and locations, but with being and meaning. ^ref-16309

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And along with indifference to space there went an even more complete indifference to time. ^ref-34483

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Visual impressions are greatly intensified and the eye recovers some of the perceptual innocence of childhood, when the sensum was not immediately and automatically subordinated to the concept. Interest in space is diminished and interest in time falls almost to zero. ^ref-13447

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But the man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less cocksure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable Mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend. ^ref-12273

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