Quotes about Perspective

Through working in harmony with life's circumstances, Taoist understanding changes what others may percieve as negative into something positive.

Truth is perspective; absolute truth is ego.

Expansion of Perspective, Unity of Purpose

"All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath---so what does that make today worth?"

Although there is a universal reality and a universal truth, individual reality and individual truth are merely manipulations you create for yourself out of the data that you choose. True, the data that flows towards any individual is incomplete and each individual builds their reality and truth frameworks from that incomplete data.

I believe that its not what happens to you or for you that makes you grateful, it's how you respond to what is happening, that shows your belief about gratitude.

"But when the conquered spirit breaks free
And indicates a new light
Who'll take care of the cats?"

What I need is perspective... Perspective is necessay.  Otherwise there are only two dimensions.  Otherwise you live with your face squashed against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face.

Ultimately, love is only possible for humans insofar as they can achieve some comprehension of their place and their duties and their values and their significance within the whole of life, of society, of spirituality, of history, of nature. In all merely partial or fragmentary perspectives, there necessarily remain undigested irrational factors, surds that one is merely tolerating and not truly respecting as essential and integral to the whole of what we are.

We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

It is sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.

Change your perspective and you change your reality.

Many are so caught up in their own problems that they cannot see the big picture. Often, seeing the big picture can give one the perspective that makes illusive solutions suddenly easy to visualize. One form of hope can be accessed through stepping outside of yourself and seeing the bigger picture.

Once in awhile you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

The day to day chores and mechanical flow of life all continued as before, but with no energy going into them. Pushing through in some moments and melting into the abyss in others, no choice in any of it. During sittings it was felt that the body and all of existence was melting and would never return again. When the end of the session came and the responsibilities of life started up again the moves would occur and life would go on as usual.

Internally, however, was a whole new paradigm. The perspective had shifted to a whole new sense. The mind was still functioning, but restricted to a strictly practical level. Not a constant burble and with no energy to touch this place. Like a waterfall in slow motion, which defies gravity and seems to float quietly past making no ripple within itself and touching nothing. Only spontaneously emerging when needed and then fading away again.

It matters not. 

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

The important thing in acting is to be able to laugh and cry.  If I have to cry, I think of my sex life.  If I have to laugh, I think of my sex life.

The greatest benefit of synergy is born in the diversity of perspectives.  The highest value can be found in these variances.  Too much of the same does not create change in the same way, does not produce the sweetest fruits for all, and gets old quick.

You can’t understand, change, or improve something if you don’t even see it.

Start with looking.  Open! Open! Open!

Then tilt your head and look again.  Deeper…

Look from every angle.  Don’t let one view satisfy your curiosity.

There is a beautiful wisdom found in seeing from a universal point of view.

When I was trying to popularize the concept of the Internet -- ten or 15 years ago -- I came up with this concept of "the 5 Cs." Services needed to have content, context, community, commerce, and connectivity. After that, when I was trying to think of what the key management principles were to build into the culture, I started talking about the Ps. The P's were things like passion, perseverance, perspective and people. I think the people aspect is really the most important one.

  Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

It's not what you're looking at that matters, it's what you see.

Since winners write the history, the false propaganda used from the beginning to the end is often accepted as the true history of the war.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

If I have been able to see farther than others, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

Problems are not problems at all, but results that are dissatisfying.

For me, the only thing that can really change my world is me—my attitude and my approach and my understanding about that which surrounds me, as well as the actions and behaviors that flow from my interpretations...

From my perspective of Higher Awareness, No one has the power to drive me crazy. In fact, people have stopped trying. They assume I can walk from here.
 - Charlene (unknown submitter to Hay House newsletter's Laugh Out Loud)

Though we can't always see it at the time,
if we look upon events with some perspective,
we see things always happen for our best interests.
We are always being guided in a way
better than we know ourselves.

Swami Satchidananda