Honor your past, and all the consequences of that past.
Receive insight into relieving the pain
caused by past experiences and current attitudes toward life.
Observe life as it currently appears,
and then train yourself to observe life
from other perspectives that support a higher quality of living.
Re-consider your priorities.
Chart your Course.
Set Sail with Courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can train ourselves to view life
from more joyful perspectives.
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Each of us holds a different image of God.
There are as many perspectives on
the nature of God as there are people.
However much any of us may choose to argue,
or to fight and kill, for our point of view,
the nature of God is an unanswerable question.
Perhaps there is a specific answer,
that we will never learn - in this lifetime.
Perhaps the nature of God is so complex and multifaceted
that each view of God describes an aspect of the complex whole.
Or perhaps the nature of God is actually defined by our beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am the owner of my choices.
I am the source for the perspectives I choose to hold...
regardless of how aware I am of why or how I come to possess
that particular perspective.
It takes courage to look into the mirror of our souls, absent excuses.
I will look into that mirror little bits at a time.
SEE and ACT. SEE what I can bear to see and ACT upon what I am able.
This is the heart of a gentle invitation to personal responsibility.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
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A flower is a weed seen through joyful eyes.
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There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
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The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
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Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
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There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
The Divine is all in the perspective we take on it.
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I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
Know that joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
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Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.
- Michael Althsuler
Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Perspective is both a necessary
and a sufficient ground for wisdom.
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What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
Balance happens when I invite it to happen
with my intentional actions and my guided perspective.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
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Choose the World You See.
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Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
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Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
When any situation arises which tempts you to become disturbed,
say: "There is another way of looking at this."
- A Course In Miracles
It is not my place to doubt the sincere beliefs of others.
My job is to question my own beliefs.
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The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
Stop! Breathe deeply.
Begin bringing peace to the outer world
by regaining your own inner peace.
Choose love, choose gratitude,
choose forgiveness, choose peace.
Begin with your own inner peace.
Then use that inner peace
as a platform from which
to approach the outer world
with perspective, understanding, and patience.
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Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz
We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
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Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
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We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
The universe is wider than our views of it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
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A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
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What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Who forces time is pushed back by time;
who yields to time finds time on his side.
- The Talmud
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
AN INSPIRED LIFE: I HAVE A CHOICE
My key to living an inspired life involves
Embracing my history,
Understanding the function of expectations
and gently learning to have none;
Recognizing the power of attentive and conscious choices.
In all circumstances I acknowledge this,
IN ALL THINGS AND ALL WAYS, I HAVE CHOICE.
My choice resides in my perspective.
While I certainly do not control climate
and markets and roadways and others,
I do control myself and my response
to all those circumstances. I do indeed.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Know the power of perspective.
Be a passionate observer of life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature will bear the closest inspection.
She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf,
and take an insect view of its plain.
- Henry David Thoreau
I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.
- Bertrand Russell
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it.
Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return.
Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
- Epictetus
One cannot have wisdom without perspective,
but once gaining perspective, one attains wisdom.
Wisdom is the ability to view every situation
as each person who is in any way affected
by that situation might view it.
Wisdom benefits from having a knowledge of history,
and therefore a historical perspective,
as well from as having the perspective of imagination -
the realm of the what-might-be
inhabited by futurists and science-fiction writers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In all circumstances I acknowledge this,
IN ALL THINGS AND ALL WAYS, I HAVE CHOICE.
My choice resides in my perspective.
While I certainly do not control climate and markets
and roadways and others, I do control myself
and my response to all those circumstances. I do indeed.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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