Quotes about Perspective

If the only tool you have in your toolbox is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.

According to a poem by Rumi, one of my favorite poets and philosophers, "This is not the real reality. The real reality is behind the curtain. In truth, we are not here. This is our shadow." What we experience as everyday reality is merely a shadow play. Behind the curtain there is a soul, living and dynamic and immortal, beyond the reach of space and time. By acting from that level, we can consciously influence our destiny.

Clearly the first and most important step in reducing stress is a change of attitude.

The problem with time is that we are always making it personal.

Don't focus on age," she says with a touch of impatience. "It doesn't exist.

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.

Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.

You judge people in the context of their time, not in the context of ours.

What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control

The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.