Quotes About Perspective

Reuben, kalau kemerdekaan yang kamu maksud sejenis keinginan anak kecil yang ingin memberontak kepada ibunya untuk bisa makan es krim waktu sakit flu, itu memang omong kosong. Aku rasa, Tuhan atau kekuatan agung apapun itu, nggak akan memberi hadiah yang dangkal begitu. Menurutku, free will adalah kebebasan manusia untuk mengubah perspektif. Kamu jatuh miskin besok, apakah itu bencana atau berkat yang tersembunyi? Semuanya ada di tanganmu. Free will adalah kemampuan manusia mengubah konteks.

Semua peristiwa hanyalah semata-mata peristiwa, tapi cara kita menyikapinyalah yang memberi label, kan? Entah itu diberi judul tragedi atau keberuntungan. Dia bisa melihat dirinya sebagai korban atau sebaliknya. Semoga saja dia sadar kalau dia sedang berpijak di semesta yang serbarelatif.

Tak ada yang lebih menarik daripada menyaksikan seseorang menyelam ke septic tank kotorannya sendiri.

Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

I think I'm more curious than I used to be - curious about why people live like they do and how they make sense of their time... Do they see how the sun has made it like a champion around the world overnight, and that all day today we get another chance to be brave, to exercise our humanity with boldness and deft precision?

I was thinking this was a great teaching moment, where they'd finally come to see that even something teeny-tiny can be big enough.

Over time, I realized I wasn't necessarily seeing people or things at their best or worst; instead, I was simply seeing things as they were. There didn't seem to be a moral high road to take in most situations, and "What's the right thing to do?" wasn't an easy question.

I didn't do anything but sit quietly and pay attention to the fact that my hollow chest was still beating. I was still alive and could see that the new normal wasn't so bad.

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.

We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.

The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.

Skeptics squat by the road like guardians of truth, letting no one pass who doesn't come up to scratch. They never realize that they can see only what their paradigm tells them to look for. If you judge a person only by how well he plays pool, Mozart won't pass scrutiny, but the fault is in your lens.

Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.

people are doing the best that they can from their own level of consciousness.

On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you. Evolution is win-win…life is self-correcting.

Instead of asking "what's the problem?" ask "what's the creative opportunity?

The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.

reality stands before them, yet they don't see it, because what you call real is just the mirror image of your expectations.

Religion is belief in someone else's experience. Spirituality is having your own experience. Atheism is no experience only measurement.

In God's eyes, walking on water is no more miraculous than the ability of hemoglobin to bond with oxygen inside a red blood corpuscle.

Completely desist from defending your point of view. When you have no point to defend, you do not allow the birth of an argument.

What I want to propose to you is that it is possible to achieve the freedom to have any viewpoint you choose and therefore any reality.

Spend time pondering not what you see," Merlin advised Arthur, "but why you see it.

When asked the secret of how to look at the world afresh, with delighted eyes, Merlin said, "You lack innocence. Having labeled a thing, you no longer see that thing, you see its label instead.