Quotes about Perspective

the power of a lens is incredible.

We trivialize the body in our indulgences. We treat it as a means to other ends. But when death comes, we grasp at it and cling to it because it is all we have left.

We see through a glass darkly because all we want is to be comfortable.

monotony finds no relief in adding variety or changing our attitude about it. Activity does not create meaning; it is the other way around.

Worship is ultimately "seeing life God's way.

We miss the roses and see only the thorns. We take for granted the warmth of the sun and get depressed by the frequency of the rain or the snow. We ignore the sounds of life in a nursery because we are preoccupied with the sounds of sirens responding to an emergency.

It took years to find out that the cry for openness is never what it purports to be. What the person means by saying, "You must be open to everything" is really, "You must be open to everything that I am open to, and anything that I disagree with, you must disagree with too.

We have lost the shared meanings of pain, and so the shared meanings of victory become occasions for jealousy.

He wants us to see what it means to live through the lens of the eternal.

His stories are so Eastern

It is possible to hold a treasure in your hand but be ignorant of it and go for the wrapping instead. This proximity to truth and distance from its worth is repeated innumerable times in our lives.

Feelings follow belief; belief, then, should follow truth.