Quotes About Perspective

Seen from a higher perspective, conditions are always positive. To be more precise: they are neither positive nor negative. They are as they are.

Most people don't inhabit a living reality, but a conceptualized one.

Through excessive reliance on thinking, reality becomes fragmented. This fragmentation is an illusion, but it seems very real while you are trapped in it. And yet the universe is an indivisible whole in which all things are interconnected, in which nothing exists in isolation. ... ...mental labels of 'good' and 'bad' are ultimately illusory. They always imply a limited perspective and so are true only relatively and temporarily.

Si no puedes aceptar lo que es, eso implica que nunca puedes aceptar a las personas como son.

It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry, or hard-done-by person. You

The ego loves to complain and feel resentful not only about other people but also about situations.

The content you identify with is conditioned by your environment, your upbringing, and surrounding culture.

All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.

Most people find it difficult to believe that a state of consciousness totally free of all negativity is possible.

Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within. Even when the sky is heavily overcast, the sun hasn't disappeared. It's still there on the other side of the clouds.

Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is a mental abstraction and a favorite fantasy of the ego.

Me pregunto ¿es lo que pienso que es o es algo completamente diferente?

the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy

Once you have disidentified with yourself whether you are right or wrong makes no difference to your sense of self at all

Watch out for thoughts that appear to justify or explain this unhappiness but in reality cause it.

If the thought of lack -- whether it be money, recognition, or love -- has become part of who you think you are, you will always experience lack. Rather than acknowledge the good that is already in your life, all you see is lack.

Can anxious thought add a single day to your life?

If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within, secondary reality without.

If you found yourself in paradise, it wouldn't be long before your mind would say "yes, but. . . .

Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously.

Since you cannot be unhappy without an unhappy story, this was the end of her unhappiness. It was also the beginning of the end of her pain-body. Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness.

Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react.

K2 is not some malevolent being, lurking there above the Baltoro, waiting to get us. It's just there. It's indifferent. It's an inanimate mountain made of rock, ice, and snow. The savageness is what we project onto it, as if we blame the peak for our own misadventures on it.

Any "story" can be told in dozens of different ways. For that very reason, I believe, every time you go back and reexamine an important chapter in your life, you learn something new about it.