Quotes About Perspective

Can you accept the notion that once you change your internal state, you don't need the external world to provide you with a reason to feel joy, gratitude, appreciation, or any other elevated emotion?

We usually give thanks for things when they've already happened. So in a sense, we've been hypnotized and conditioned into believing that we need a reason for joy, that we need a reason for gratitude.

Change Your Mind, Change Your Life

Attitudes strung together become beliefs, and related beliefs strung together become perceptions. Over time, this redundancy creates a view of the world and of yourself that's largely subconscious.

The Solid Ground We Stand On … Isn't

To Change Your Life, Change Your Beliefs about the Nature of Reality

Beliefs are also more permanent than attitudes; they can last for months or even years. And because they last longer, they become more programmed within you.

If you string a group of related beliefs together, they form your perception. So your perception of reality is a sustained state of being that's based on your long-standing beliefs, attitudes, thoughts, and feelings.

In fact, scientific experiments have shown that you don't see reality as it truly is. Instead, you unconsciously fill in your reality based on your memories of the past, which is what's neurochemically maintained in your brain.2 When perceptions become implicit or nondeclarative (as was discussed in the last chapter), they become automatic or subconscious so that you automatically edit reality subjectively.

Reality and our interaction with it is a progression of ideas and beliefs.

Isn't it ironic, then, that we keep all of our attention on the 0.00001 percent of reality that is physical? Are we missing something?

Joann sabía que la esclerosis múltiple no era más que una etiqueta, como la de «madre», «esposa» o «jefa».

Reality can be a bit of a moving target—literally.

La actitud lo es todo

You can't get up from your mental creation of this experience as the same person you were when you sat down. You have to get up from your seat as if you just had [the experience you wish to manifest].

Si creemos que en cuanto tengamos el dinero para comprar más cosas seremos de lo más felices, lo estamos viendo al revés. Tenemos que sentirnos felices antes de que la abundancia aparezca en nuestra vida.

If an atom is 99.99999 percent energy and .00001 percent physical substance,1 then I'm actually more nothing than something! So why do I keep my attention on that small percentage of the physical world when I am so much more?

If you start keeping track of your thoughts and write them down, you'll find that most of the time, you are either thinking ahead or looking back.

To Experience Change, Observe a New Outcome with a New Mind

We don't perceive things in our reality the way they are; we perceive reality the way we are.

For now, it's enough to keep in mind that if your goal is to effect change and you haven't been able to make it happen with all your external-world resources, then clearly you'll need to look outside the limits of what you see, sense, and experience for your answers. You'll need to pull from other sources you haven't yet identified—from the unknown. So in that sense, the unknown is your friend, not your foe. It's the place where the answer lies.

If an atom is 99.99999 percent energy and .00001 percent physical substance,1 then I'm actually more nothing than something! So why do I keep my attention on that small percentage of the physical world when I am so much more? Is defining my present reality by what I perceive with my senses the biggest limitation I have?

Your brain and body don't know the difference between having an actual experience in your life and just thinking about the experience—neurochemically, it's the same. So your brain and body begin to believe they're actually living in the new experience in the present moment.

The more we use our senses to define reality, the more we experience separation.