Thoughts on Perspectives

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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

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

We can train ourselves to view life
from more joyful perspectives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A flower is a weed seen through joyful eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous

The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves
that all of life is not black and white.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

The Divine is all in the perspective we take on it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

Know that joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb

Perspective is both a necessary
and a sufficient ground for wisdom.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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.

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

Choose the World You See.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz

What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz

The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman

Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust

When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie

People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus

The universe is wider than our views of it.
- Henry David Thoreau

Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle

Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck

You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen

Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.
- Michael Althsuler

Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.
- don Miguel Ruiz

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus

What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow

We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Balance happens when I invite it to happen
with my intentional actions and my guided perspective.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher

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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Who forces time is pushed back by time;
who yields to time finds time on his side.
- The Talmud

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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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 thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono

The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe,
just so you're sincere.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Go Fly A Kite, Charlie Brown

I view the Divine and All of Life
from the perspective of Celebration.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb

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.
- 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

We see what we ASSUME we will see.
If you believe the world is evil, you will see evil.
If you believe the world is good, you will see good.
To change how life looks, change how you see life -
change your expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius

Where there is an observatory and a telescope,
we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
- Henry David Thoreau

I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.
- Bertrand Russell

Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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