Perception, matters

Found quite an interesting read here:

(excerpts)

'Every opportunity in life is open to you if you perceive it as your opportunity. If you perceive a wall to be a dead end, you will turn back and allow it to prevent your passage. If you perceive it merely as an obstacle you will get a ladder and climb over it. Regardless of what situation you are in, there are those who will perceive it as better than theirs and those who will perceive it as worse. There will be those who perceive a situation as a beginning and those who perceive it as an end. If we want to change our lives we have to change our perception of them.'


'Those of us who amass large sums of money, huge holdings in real estate, diamonds, furs, cars, all of the emblems of wealth and or fame, do so because they perceive a world in which ones value is based upon these things, without them one is nobody, worthless. Living in this perceived reality is an enormous amount of work, because one always needs more just be remain good enough because in the material world, that bar is constantly rising, today’s penthouse is tomorrows basement, and so today’s person of worth is tomorrows worthless person. This is why we do not own what we have, but what we have owns us, so long as we believe that it in any way defines us.'


'Happy people see beauty in things that unhappy people don’t see. It is not because they would not see them as beautiful. It is because they do not see them at all. Happy people find what the Buddhist call, “the bless in the mess”. They do not notice what is lost they notice what is found.'


'We can’t change what is, but since what is has probably never been seen by the human eye, all that we have to do is change what we perceive it to be and we will change the path that lay before us, obstacles become challenges, and we no longer seek until we quit, we seek until we find.'




Perception is about how we view and make sense of the environment around us. How we perceive it to be, is base on what our believes are, is it not? If you do not believe in certain things, there's a less likely possibility for you to be perceiving things in that matter.

So let's just say, perception molds our life. How we perceive life to be, is how we'll live our life through. How we perceive an action, will be what that determines the reaction, and following it would be the resulting outcomes with each different reaction.

Liked how the writer referred to the physical world as just a backdrop on the life we're living, how we actually live in a world of perception. Yea, I agree- Perception, rules.