perspective shift quotes

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

My opinion can be completely different after a show.

Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations – if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.

When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God’s eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can’t un-see.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‚I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.‘

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry ‚I could have thought of that‘ is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn’t, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.

Ethiopia didn’t just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, ‚Would you take my son with you?‘ He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

The moment you have a child, in an instant your life is not for you, and your life is completely, 100 percent dedicated to another human being, and they will always come first. It changes you forever. It changes your perspective, and it gives you a nice purpose and focus.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn’t as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

Every time you think the problem is ‚out there,‘ that very thought is the problem.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

It’s very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can’t imagine.

Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.