Quotes About Perspective

Never forget which way you face

At the soul level, we get precisely what we need in our lives for our spiritual growth. How we judge what we get determines whether we experience life as painful or joyful.

I know people within the Hare Krishna community look at pop music as secular, different, and something separate from spiritual music but for me, there's no difference.

Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be

Once you realize you're a spiritual being, you see life so differently. You respect things. You're more responsible to yourself and others.

It is a strange thing ,that every child is born with a closed hand , and every body dies with an open hand !

Unfortunate events though potentially a source of anger and despair have equal potential to be a source of spiritual growth. Whether or not this is the outcome depends on your response.

Remember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please.

There is often a big disparity between the way in which we perceive things and the way things really are.

There are five billion human beings and in a certain way I think we need five billion different religions.

Whether it is suffering or joy, going through experiences in life is not so much of a karma. Depriving yourself of any experience is the big karma.

If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is only an apparency.

I don't think of the ashram world as being any more spiritual than the corporate world.

I do not think that my spiritual apprehensions are as dogmatically cultural as those of many people who have been brought up strictly in a particular tradition.

I think that all the spiritual training is just to be able to allow you to experience this from a slightly different perspective - one that's a little more stabilized.

All around the world, people believe that there is a great conflict between good and evil. Well, it's true that there's a conflict, but it only exists in the human mind.

One person's cult is another person's spiritual organization.

It is all very well for you, who have probably never seen any spiritual manifestations, to talk as you do; but if you had seen what I have witnessed you would hold a different opinion.

The problems facing humanity today are spiritual problems, and they can only be solved by taking a long, hard look at what it is we all believe.

I'm more of a realist when it comes to life, and I'd much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

I am quite spiritual. I believed in the fairies when I was a child. I still do sort of believe in the fairies. And the leprechauns. But I don't believe in God.

I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.

Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full-grown man discards the treasures of his childhood.

Worry is spiritual nearsightedness, a fumbling way of looking at little things, and of magnifying their value.