Quotes About Perspective

The only thing we are ever dealing with is a thought, and a thought can be changed. Most of the time when we are in pain, it's because we are responding to our thoughts about something.

Change the thought, and the feeling must go.

We seldom sit down and question our beliefs. For instance, I could ask myself: "Why do I believe that it's difficult for me to learn? Is that really true? Is it true for me now? Where did that belief come from?

Usually what we believe is only someone else's opinion that we've accepted and incorporated into our own belief system.

The only thing we're ever dealing with is a thought. And a thought can be changed.

How hard it is for most of us to understand that THEY, whoever they are we need most to forgive, were also in pain. We need to understand that they were doing the best they could with the understanding, awareness, and knowledge they had at that time.

This thought produces a feeling, and you buy into the feeling. However, if you don't have the thought, you won't have the feeling. And thoughts can be changed. Change the thought, and the feeling must go.

Fighting the negative is a total waste of time if you really want to make changes in your life. The more you dwell on what you don't want, the more of it you create. The things about yourself or your life that you have always disliked are probably still with you.

The neck represents the ability to be flexible in our thinking, to see the other side of a question, and to see another person's viewpoint. When there are problems with the neck, it usually means we are being stubborn about our own concept of a situation.

Whatever the problem is, it comes from a thought pattern, and thought patterns can be changed!

What is important in this moment is what you are choosing to think and believe and say right now. For

Many people who come through catastrophic illness say that it was the most wonderful thing that ever happened to them because it gave them a chance to go about their lives differently.

The past only exists in our minds and in the way we choose to look at it in our minds.

We are doing the best we can with the understanding, awareness, and knowledge we have.

One of our biggest spiritual lessons is to understand that everyone is doing the best they can at any given moment. People can only do so much with the understanding, awareness, and knowledge that they have.

No matter how you approach it, or what subject matter we are talking about, we are only dealing with thoughts, and thoughts can be changed.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

What we believe about ourselves and about life becomes true for us.

The Only Thing You Ever Have Any Control of Is Your Current Thought

Our lives become more peaceful when we stop interpreting everything that happens to us, and instead, experience everything that happens to us—no matter what its appearance—as a blessing in disguise. When we walk our pathway in life with a "Thank you" in our hearts, a "Thank you" in our minds, and a "Thank you" on our lips, whatever fear we may have been holding on to disappears, and the purity of love reappears.

It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

Even our concept of God needs to be one that is for us, not against us.

The stresses I had obsessed about seemed like cleverly constructed challenges that beckoned me to create life more mindfully and authentically.

People often tell me, "I can't stop thinking a thought." I always reply, "Yes, you can." Remember, how often have you refused to think a positive thought? You just have to tell your mind that that is what you are going to do. You have to make up your mind to stop thinking negatively.