Quotes About Perspective

There is not truly bad weather, just bad clothes.

Helen Russell

Maybe I should start my happiness project by trying to be more grateful for what I've got,

It also occurred to me that wishing away half your life in anticipation of retirement (albeit an awesome one) was verging on the medieval.

the fact that I was dreaming of retirement at the age of 33 was probably an indicator that something had to change. I

Just as London is not really England, Copenhagen is not, I am reliably informed, 'the real Denmark'.

To the struggling-self, it is a prison; to the awakening-Self, it is classroom

In a spiritual pursuit we desire a collective experience of oneness, not the words of oneness. As we challenge ourselves to see the world through the eyes of Christ, we will see everyone as the same, and great joy will fill our hearts.

7 Si has tenido y has dado, el mundo afirma que has perdido lo que poseías. 8 La verdad mantiene que dar incrementa lo que posees.

5 No hay un dador y un receptor en el sentido en el que el mundo los concibe. 6 Hay un dador que conserva lo que da, y otro que también habrá de dar. 7 Y ambos ganarán en este intercambio, pues cada uno de ellos dispondrá del pensamiento en la forma que le resulte más útil.

2 El que entiende el significado de dar, no puede por menos que reírse de la idea del sacrificio.

Elijo el júbilo de Dios en lugar del dolor. 1. El dolor es una perspectiva errónea. 2 Cuando se experimenta en cualquier forma que sea, es señal de que nos hemos engañado a nosotros mismos. 3 El dolor no es un hecho en absoluto. 4 Sea cual sea la forma que adopte, desaparece una vez que se percibe correctamente. 5 Pues el dolor proclama que Dios es cruel. 6 ¿Cómo podría entonces ser real en cualquiera de las formas que adopta?

Por qué esperar al Cielo? Los que buscan la luz están simplemente cubriéndose los ojos. 3 La luz ya está en ellos. 4 La iluminación es simplemente un reconocimiento, no un cambio.

El mundo que vemos refleja simplemente nuestro marco de referencia interno:

A miracle is a shift in perception. ["A Course In Miracles", a metaphysical text]

6 Debes reconocer que cualquier clase de sacrificio no es sino una limitación que se le impone al acto de dar.

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.

But in the same way that you can listen to a part of yourself without agreeing with it, you can listen to your partner, or indeed anyone, with compassion without giving up your own position. You gain both closeness and true power by acknowledging what someone else thinks and feels. An

A person might say, for example, "I am scared because the world is a dangerous place" and therefore never stop being afraid, because the world's not going to change. Feelings are always a mix of internal and external reality. If this person fully listened to her fear as a feeling inside her, not as a fact about the world, she'd become much clearer about what she was afraid of, and why, and what she could do about the fear.

All literature is scarry.

I fail to see why you did not understand that groceryman, he did not call it 'ground ground nuts,' he called it ground ground-nuts which is the only really SENSible thing to call it. Peanuts grow in the GROUND and are therefore GROUND-nuts, and after you take them out of the ground you grind them up and you have ground ground-nuts, which is a much more accurate name than peanut butter, you just don't understand English.

I'm always ashamed when I discover how well-read other people are and how ignorant I am in comparison. If you saw the long list of famous books and authors I've never read you wouldn't believe it. My problem is that while other people are reading fifty books I'm reading one book fifty times. I only stop when at the bottom of the page 20, say, I realize I can recite page 21 and 22 from memory. Then I put the book away for a few years.

One of these days I'm going to write a book about living in New York—in a sixteen-story apartment house complete with families, bachelors, career girls, a ninety-year-old Village Idiot and a doorman who can tell you the name and apartment number of every one of the twenty-seven resident dogs. I am so tired of being told what a terrible place New York is to live in by people who don't live there.