Quotes About Perspective

hereafter, is see that you do not identify your self with them.

When I understood this much about the People, I realized how truly different their reality was. My reality is made in my head; I create roles for myself, I create a structure that requires certain activities and prohibits others. I live in time; I have an agenda. Their existence had no reality until they lived it.

I've yet to hear from anyone who has passed from this earth who has come back and said, "Tell everyone that their reward in heaven is in direct proportion to how much of a miserable life they live on this earth.

Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. —Marcus Aurelius

This is something that can happen again and again via meditation: accepting, even embracing, an unpleasant feeling can give you a critical distance

realizing you're not king can be the first step toward getting some real power.

In sum: you can best achieve success at meditation by not pursuing success, and achieving this success may mean caring less about success, at least as success is conventionally defined.

When you're feeling either very good or very bad about yourself, it probably means that a large body of evidence is being hidden from view. The most truthful times come between the extremes.

On the other hand, we do often pursue such things with, at the very least, an unbalanced view of the future. We spend more time envisioning the perks that a promotion will bring than envisioning the headaches it will bring.

And don't feel like you're committing a felony-level violation of Buddhist dogma just because you think of yourself as being a self.

that the stories we tell about things, and thus the beliefs we have about their history and their nature, shape our experience of them, and thus our sense of their essence.

Entonces, la idea es que todo lo significativo que vemos en el mundo es algo que nosotros sobreimponemos en él?». «Exactamente»

accepting, even embracing, an unpleasant feeling can give you a critical distance from it that winds up diminishing the unpleasantness.

clearest vision possible.

People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?

It is as if I were beginning the game all over again, neither happier nor unhappier than before. But aware now of where my strength lies, scornful of my own vanities

Sí, lo entiendo, y pienso que cada uno tiene que conocer en la vida muchas tristezas. Lo notable es que cada tristeza es distinta de la otra, porque cada una de ellas se refiere a una alegría que no podemos tener. Usted me habla de catástrofes presentes, y yo me acuerdo de sufrimientos pasados; tengo la sensación de que me arrancaron el alma con una tenaza, la pusieron sobre un yunque y descargaron tantos martillazos, hasta dejármela aplastada por completo.

cada uno tiene que conocer en la vida muchas tristezas. Lo notable es que cada tristeza es distinta de la otra, porque cada una de ellas se refiere a una alegría que no podemos tener.

Ahora mismo, yo me pregunto, mirándote: ¿Con qué ojos mira una mujer a un hombre? Eso es lo que nunca sabremos. ¿No te parece? Vos para mí eras un desgraciado, al que de un revés se lo saca uno de adelante. Pero para ella, ¿quién eras vos? Ese es el punto oscuro. ¿Lo supiste alguna vez? Decíme francamente: ¿supiste vos en tu corazón qué hombre eras para tu mujer? ¿Qué es lo que ella vio en vos para sufrir tanto a tu lado, y soportarte como lo hizo?

To laugh or cry is the most beautiful thing in the world

The diseased, anyway, are more interesting than the healthy. The words of the diseased, even those who can manage only a murmur, carry more weight than those of the healthy. Then, too, all healthy people will in the future know disease. That sense of time, ah, the diseased man's sense of time, what treasure hidden in a desert cave. Then, too the diseased truly bite, whereas the healthy pretend to bite but really only snap at the air. Then, too, then, too, then, too.

When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we're nothing.

That's a pretty story,' said Afanasievna as she let go of Ansky's genitals. 'A pity I'm too old and have seen to much to believe it.' It has nothing to do with belief,' said Ansky, 'it has to do with understanding, and then changing.

life is a succession of misunderstandings, leading us on to the final truth, the only truth.