If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
I was thinking about framing, and how so much of what we think about our lives and our personal histories revolves around how we frame it. The lens we see it through, or the way we tell our own stories. We mythologise ourselves. I was thinking about framing, and how so much of what we think about our lives and our personal histories revolves around how we frame it. The lens we see it through, or the way we tell our own stories. We mythologise ourselves.
If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective.
We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.
Life, what is it but a dream?
There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.
Being old gave [Sophie] an entirely new view of Fanny. She was a lady who was still young and pretty, and she had found the hat shop as boring as Sophie did. But she had stuck with it and done her best, both with the shop and with the three girls – until Mr Hatter had died. Then she had suddenly been afraid she was just like Sophie: old with no reason, and nothing to show for it.
What we do see depends mainly on what we look for... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them.
Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
‘Everything is uglier up close,’ she said.