Quotes About Perspective

To see the world from another's point of view, and make sense of it.' 'I think it has blossomed in Ram.

If you can empathize with the fears that make people heroes, villains and victims, then you are doing darshan. For then you look beyond the boundaries that separate you from the rest.

My deha is different from yours. My hungers are different from yours. My assumptions are different from yours. My capabilities are different from yours. My experiences are diferent from yours. My expressions are different from yours.

Events are events. Humans qualify them as good or bad.

Hindu thought, however, looks at truth quantitatively: everyone has access to a slice (bhaga); the one who sees all slices of truth is bhaga-van. Limited

Should the urge to find a fixed single objective truth grip you, remind yourself: Within infinite myths lies an eternal truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes Indra, a hundred You and I, only two.

All things are good and bad only in hindsight

Even the worst of villains has a story that perhaps explains their actions, without condoning them.

Failure to see the other stopped the mind from expanding. It started contracting, crumpling and getting knotted. It became all about me and mine, not you and yours. Limitless Brahmana thus became the limited Brahma.

Quoting her [Jane Austen] is the second-best recipe for happiness I've ever heard of.

Walau tak ada yang sempurna, hidup ini indah apa adanya.

Begitu seseorang mengenal konsep uang, maka ia menjadi seperti taksi yang ditancapi argometer. Mendadak ia mulai menghitung, mengukur, dan menaksir apapun yang dilewatinya

lalu bagaimana kalo ternyata apa yang kita cari selama ini sebagai ketidaklengkapan sebenarnya hanya rectoverso belaka? Yang artinya kita tidak perlu kemana-mana. Yang artinya lagi untuk merasa utuh kita hanya perlu mengubah perspektif kita. Ketika kita berhasil mengambil jarak dari benih-benih pemecah belah dalam pikiran kita, maka rectoverso akan tampil. Yang artinya lagi (dan lagi), apa yang anda ingin cari tidak berada di luar sana sebaliknya sangat dekat tak berjarak.

By celebrating what's right with the world, we find the energy to fix what's wrong.

Creativity is the ability to look at the ordinary and see the extraordinary.

You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation.

Above the stage was a glass-floored second stage, which allowed customers to look up and watch another girl dancing overhead. This multidimensional display of poontang reminded me of the 3-D chessboard on Star Trek, which in turn reminded me that I was a huge nerd.

Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes.

All through my sixties I felt I was still within hailing distance of middle age, not safe on its shores, perhaps, but navigating its coastal waters. My seventieth birthday failed to change this because I managed scarcely to notice it, but my seventy-first did change it. Being 'over seventy' is being old: suddenly I was aground on that fact and saw that the time had come to size it up.

I have heard people bewailing man's landing on the moon, as though before it was touched by an astronaut's foot it was made of silver or mother-of-pearl, and that footprint turned it into gray dust. But the moon never was made of mother-of-pearl, and it still shines as if it were so made.

it is that a lot of little black marks on paper can bring a person who died nearly two hundred years ago into your room: bring him so close that you know him much better than you would have known him if you met him in the flesh. It is extraordinary and it is enlarging.

The moment that we think we know, we've lost our perspective on wisdom.

I learned new things about myself, about God, about life—all of it possible only because I was fired. I feel thankful.

In normal life one is not at all aware that we always receive infinitely more than we give, and that gratitude is what enriches life.