Perspective Quote by Robert Greene

“You must constantly nourish openness, breadth of vision, willingness, enthusiasm, and reverence, that will change the whole atmosphere of your mind.”

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“Having a deep sense of understanding is a huge burden for a mind that can’t directly influence things.”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“We are often lost in our thoughts and only superficially in touch with the reality and intensity of our inner and outer experiences. How…

— Joel Levey

“As we explore new ways of thinking, we need to be willing to investigate, experiment, take some risks with our attention, and stretch.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Often we find it easier to think our way around things rather than to feel our way through them:”

— Mark Nepo

“Few realize that they can control the way they feel and positively affect the things that come into their life experience by deliberately directing…

— Esther Hicks

“The mind, like the eye, offers a given perspective, but we can develop how it views things and learn how to process the world…

— Thomas J. Brennan

“From within the mind we look out and envision, contemplating and interpreting each new challenge and the action we will take.”

— Lorii Myers

“It took us a while to discover that we do effectively think, but that we more readily narrate backward in order to give ourselves…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”

— William James

“the general effect of attempting things beyond us, even though we fail, is to enlarge and liberalize the mind.”

— Ann Shen

Living from our deepest understanding requires an enormous effort, especially when it goes against the stream of our instinctually programmed perceptions of the world.

— Stephen Batchelor