Quotes About Perspective

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.

Wisdom is the capacity to see things from God's viewpoint.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

Life is what you make it.

Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.

We have much wisdom to gain by learning to understand other people's cultures and permitting ourselves to accept that there is more than one version of reality.

Intelligence is the shadow of objective truth. How can the shadow vie with sunshine?

We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.

Life will not, it will never, make sense to your mind. The secret is to see life from the soul's perspective; to add to the mind's experience the soul's wisdom, awareness, and total knowing.

Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way is part of the way.

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

All new news is old news happening to new people

We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.

While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful.

Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes

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

Just because the tide is out, doesn't mean there is less water in the ocean.

"I don't like it" or "I like it". This sentence must go away from your tongue. Likes and dislikes are only for people who have limited vision. You should learn to appreciate.

If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.