The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.
To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, processes of intuiting that grasp the object in the original.
The moment that we realize our attention has wandered is the magic moment of the practice, because that's the moment we have the chance to be really different. Instead of judging ourselves, and berating ourselves, and condemning ourselves, we can be gentle with ourselves.
We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.