Perspective Quotes
The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world.
Life can be pleasant or miserable. To lead a fruitful life, and to make it positive, practice analytical meditation.
From one point of view, we can say that we have human bodies, are practicing the Buddha's teachings, and are thus much better than insects. But we can also say that insects are innocent and free from guile, whereas we often lie and misrepresent ourselves in devious ways in order to achieve our ends or better ourselves. From this perspective, we are much worse than insects.
Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.
It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.
If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.
Don't discount yourself, no matter what you're doing. Everyone has a unique perspective that they can bring to the world.
We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
Science and technology have freed humanity from many burdens and given us this new perspective and great power. This power can be used for the good of all. If wisdom governs our actions; but if the world is mad or foolish, it can destroy itself just when great advances and triumphs are almost without its grasp.
Against that positivism which stops at phenomena, saying 'there are only facts,' I would say: No, it is precisely facts that do not exist, only interpretations.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
This - is now my way, - where is yours? Thus did I answer those who asked me 'the way.' For the way - it doth not exist!
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
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