Quotes About Perspective

All your lies became truth of my life!

The totality of life cannot be understood, so runs Sufi teaching, if it is studied only through the methods which we use in everyday living.

Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society.

You will never reach Mecca, I fear: for you are on the road to Turkestan.

When intelligence shuts a door, wisdom opens a window.

You don't think your way back to joy

Calling the cat stupid never made the mice wise.

...there is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it doesn't - it needs us to be ...

I'm white and I don't dance, but that doesn't mean I have all the answers.

A spoon does not know whether it enters a rich or poor man's mouth.

I shield to one who is pessimistic and shield to one who is optimistic leaving this in a wandering state.

We are fools in the stream of time, in moments of calm, we will laugh about ourselves.

Life is not only Newton, it is also Milton.

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

Those who have never seen themselves surrounded on all sides by the sea can never possess an idea of the world, and of their relation to it.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

If you cannot change your circumstances, then change your attitude.

Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.

You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters?

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.

It's not how deep you go, it's how you go deep.