On perception…

I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

"There is at least a billion people in this world, who'll consider their prayers answered if they could switch places with you "

~ Sam Harris

To be human is to continually mistake our frames of reference for reality itself.

We so readily forget that our vantage point is but a speck on the immense plane of possible perspectives.

One of the most valuable skills in life is being able to see another person's perspective.

Normal is an illusion.

What we in the privileged world call brave is just life to the other 99% of it. 

What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.

The room in which we now sit, has two side walls, a right-hand one and a left-hand one.

To you, this is the right side, to me, sitting facing you, that is the right side.

The problem is: Which side is in reality the right-hand one?

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven out of hell, and a hell out of heaven.”

~ John Milton

You come home, make some tea, sit down in your armchair and all around there’s silence. Everyone decides for themselves whether that’s loneliness or freedom.

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." 

~ Marcus Aurelius

“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”

~ Muhammad Ali

Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe.