Quotes About Perspective

A tragédia está nos olhos de quem a observa, e não no coração de quem a sofre

Presently a new experience gives a new turn to our thoughts.

No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts.

Do not think the youth has no force, because he cannot speak to you and me. Hark! in the next room his voice is sufficiently clear and emphatic. It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries.

I have no expectation that any man will read history aright, who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing to-day.

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.

The accepted and betrothed lover has lost the wildest charm of his maiden in her acceptance of him. She was heaven whilst he pursued her as a star: she cannot be heaven if she stoops to such a one as he.

Well, most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not quite true. Their two is not the real two, their four not the real four; so that every word they say chagrins us, and we know not where to begin to set them right.

If you think you are enlightened; go home for Thanksgiving.

It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.

Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.

The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.

There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.

The cosmic humor is that if you desire to move mountains and you continue to purify yourself, ultimately you will arrive at the place where you are able to move mountains. But in order to arrive at this position of power you will have had to give up being he-who-wanted-to-move-mountains so that you can be he-who-put-the-mountain-there-in-the-first-place. The humor is that finally when you have the power to move the mountain, you are the person who placed it there--so there the mountain stays.

Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.

When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.

What Einstein demonstrated in physics is equally true of all other aspects of the cosmos: all reality is relative. Each reality is true only within given limits. It is only one possible version of the way things are. There are always multiple versions of reality. To awaken from any single reality is to recognize its relative nature. Meditation is a device to do just that.

If a pickpocket meets a saint, he sees only his pockets." Then he'd get up and leave. Or he'd write, "If you wear shoeleather, the whole earth is covered with leather." These were his ways of teaching me about how motivation affects perception.

The thing about perspective is: something happens. it means nothing. we make up a story about what it means based on what we feel. this story becomes our truth. this story creates our reality, our world, what is possible and what is not.

I found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard 'new things': that is, things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new."—Ouspensky

From a personality point of view, you develop judgment, but from the sou's point of view, you develop appreciation.

If you wear shoeleather, the whole earth is covered with leather.

In The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment, Thaddeus Golas says, "You never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.

So we won't take ourselves too seriously. Because taking something serious doesn't make it go away any faster. In fact, it keeps making it a little bit worse.