Quotes About Perception

THERE IS MORE TO THIS THING OF LOVE THAN MEETS THE EYE. I AM GOING TO HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THIS A GREAT DEAL BUT I DON'T THINK IT WILL GET ME ANYWHERE. I THINK MAYBE THEY'RE ALL RIGHT WHEN THEY SAY THERE ARE DOME THINGS I WON'T KNOW ABOUT UNTIL I'M OLDER.

Harriet: How do you practice being an onion?

all God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.' 

Safe Deposit I thought that I could keep it? the light on the running tide, how your eyes give you away no matter what you hide. I thought that I could hold it? the forest along the sand, your neck bones like pearls underneath my hand. But time's school has taught me how petals brown and die. There's no saving pleasure. Don't try. Don't try.

It is true if you believe it to be true.

When there is a problem, there is not something to do, there is something to know.

What we think about ourselves becomes the truth for us.

Our thinking creates our experiences," she began. "That doesn't mean the loss didn't happen or that the grief isn't real. It means that our thinking shapes our experience of the loss.

Our consistent thinking patterns create our experiences. Therefore, by changing our thinking patterns, we can change our experiences

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.

Lo que usted decide pensar de usted mismo y de la vida llega a ser verdad para usted. Y ambos tenemos opciones ilimitadas respecto de lo que podemos pensar.

When We Are Very Little, We Learn How to Feel about Ourselves and about Life by the Reactions of the Adults Around Us It is the way we learn what to think about ourselves and about our world. Now, if you lived with people who were very unhappy, frightened, guilty, or angry, then you learned a lot of negative things about yourself and about your world.

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.

see myself and others with compassion and understanding. The people in my life are really mirrors

All the events you have experienced in your lifetime up to this moment have been created by your thoughts and beliefs you have held in the past.

Children often respond to the mental atmosphere of the adults around them.

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

I often ask clients, "Would you rather be right or would you rather be happy?" We all have opinions on who was right and who was wrong according to our own perceptions, and we can all find ways to justify our feelings. We want to punish others for what they did to us; however, we are the ones running the story over and over in our own minds. It is foolish for us to punish ourselves in the present because someone hurt us in the past.

Nadie piensa en tu mente sino tú.

Visualize or imagine yourself having or doing or being what you are working toward. Fill in all the details. Feel, see, taste, touch, hear. Notice other people's reactions to your new state. Make it all okay with you no matter what their reactions are.

The Only Thing We Are Ever Dealing With Is a Thought, and a Thought Can Be Changed

You are much more than your mind. You may think your mind is running the show. But that is only because you have trained your mind to think in this way. You

We have ideas about ourselves that we use as limitations or resistance to changing. We are: Too old. Too young. Too fat. Too thin. Too short. Too tall. Too lazy. Too strong. Too weak. Too dumb. Too smart. Too poor. Too worthless. Too frivolous. Too serious. Too stuck. Maybe it's just all too much.