Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.
William James quotes
The pathway forward towards happiness and authenticity is not determined by something outside ourselves. It’s determined by our own thinking, our own inner process, our self perception.
So if our way forward feels blocked, it is blocked by the way we perceive ourselves, by our fears and how they cause us to act toward ourselves. We take forward with us our unhealed inner negative perceptions and recreate the same situations over and over.
We are stopped by what we think our needs are - what we think we want and by all the means we employ to try to escape from our fears and self hatred.
We are stopped by thinking that if we work towards a degree, find a better job, marry this person, attend this class, try out this new way, buy these new possessions, earn this much more money, begin yet another new project – that we will find our way.
We are stopped by our lack of compassion for ourselves, by our self loathing. It is fear that creates this self perception.
The greatest way to change our world is to change our perceptions about the world.
The greatest way for this change to come about is through a change in our self beliefs.
~ Epictetus
~ Carlos Castenado
~ Marianne Williamson
~ Byron Katie
There is no truth. There is only perception
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