Quotes About Perspective

Do you know one sign that you've woken up? It's when you are asking yourself, "Am I crazy, or are all of them crazy?

Because agreement and disagreement have to do with words and concepts and theories. They don't have anything to do with truth. Truth is never expressed in words. Truth is sighted suddenly, as a result of a certain attitude.

Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed: after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed." But there's a difference: I don't identify with it anymore.

No theory adequately covers reality.

You want the little things that society has falsely taught you are essential for happiness. You want that.

Negative feelings are in you, not in reality. So stop trying to change reality. That's crazy! Stop trying to change the other person.

When we talk about self-worth, are we not talking, really, about how we are reflected in the mirrors of other people's minds?

The fact is that you're surrounded by God and you don't see God, because you "know" about God. The final barrier to the vision of God is your God concept.

But are you listening for what will confirm what you already think? Or are you listening in order to discover something new?

Your life as it is now: nightmare. Every single thing you cling to and have convinced yourself you cannot be happy without: nightmare.

We see things and people not as they are, but as we are.

Look at it this way: You see persons and things not as they are but as you are. If you wish to see them as they are you must attend to your attachments and the fears that your attachments generate.

If you wish to be fully alive you must develop a sense of perspective. Life is infinitely greater than this trifle your heart is attached to and which you have given the power to so upset you. Trifle, yes, because if you live long enough a day will easily come when it will cease to matter

How happy we would be if terrorists would adore their ideology less and question more. However, we don't like to apply that to ourselves; we think we're all right and the terrorists are wrong. But a terrorist to you is a martyr to the other side.

hay personas que, a pesar de encontrarse en las mismísimas condiciones en que tú te encuentras ahora, no sienten la menor inseguridad. Esas personas existen, y seguramente conoces a alguna. Consiguientemente, el problema no depende de la realidad exterior a ti, sino de ti mismo, de tu «programación».

Không có góc nhìn cuá»™c s?ng nào t?t hÆ¡n là nhìn nó t? cái ch?t.

The shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

Before enlightenment I used to be depressed. After enlightenment I continue to be depressed.

Trata de verte ahora reaccionando negativamente y hazte la siguiente pregunta: «¿Tengo yo el control de esta situación o, por el contrario, es la situación la que me domina a mí?».

dominio? Todo lo que tienes que hacer es comprender que hay personas en el mundo que, si estuvieran en tu lugar, no se verían afectadas negativamente por esa persona, sino que controlarían la situación y estarían por encima de ella, no sometidas a ella como tú lo estás.

Could you give me the inner richness that makes it possible for you to so easily give away this thing that would have made you the richest man in the world?

en el individuo fanático que tan sólo se fija en aquello que confirma lo que él cree y apenas percibe cuanto pueda ponerlo en entredicho, y comprenderás lo que tus creencias suponen para ti.

What makes you happy or unhappy is not the world and the people around you, but the thinking in your head.

Tercera verdad: si deseas estar plenamente vivo, debes adquirir y desarrollar el sentido de la perspectiva. La vida es infinitamente más grande que esa nimiedad a la que tu corazón se ha apegado y a la que tú has dado el poder de alterarte de ese modo. Una nimiedad, sí, porque, si vives lo suficiente, es muy fácil que algún día esa cosa o persona deje de importarte...