Quotes about Perspective

We become so used to the familiar that we begin to doubt the unfamiliar, until our eyes are opened and we see .

There is my first insight, young woman. Always downplay the value of money; it will make it much easier for him to hand it over.

There was no better way to understand life than to live it—if not through your own life, then through another's. There was once a man who owned a field. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Not to read was to turn your back on the wisest minds.

But know that how you see yourself doesn't define you. How I see you defines you. How you see yourself only defines your experience in the world.

We're far more than just physical beings having a spiritual experience. We're spiritual beings having a temporary physical experience.

Everything was really a story, penned or thought or acted out at some time by someone.

I would like my readers to close the cover at the end and say: Wow, I never thought of it like that before!

Whoever said that a straightened hand was more dramatic than a healed heart anyway? -the character Dr. Paul Thompson from Blessed Child

If you were to put all of the world's pain in one fifty-five gallon drum, it would look silly next to the mountains of gold and silver found in each moment with God. Our problem is that we rarely see past the drum — The Dance of the Dead

The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness.

Why would this teacher not be afraid in the face of such a terrible threat? Unless what he saw and what the others saw were two different realities. Where they saw a threat, he slept in peace. This was perhaps his greatest miracle, much greater than the healing of a rash.

Whoever said that a straighten hand was more dramatic than a healed heart?