Paul Harding Quotes

Perspectives change.

Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light.

What transforms this world is - knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.

Reaction is what changes your understanding of the world.

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality," says one of my favorite Byzantine mystics. I did this when a child; I do it now as well in the most creative moments of my life.

The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.

One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them.

But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.

Every hundred feet the world changes

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.

The answers to our questions are everywhere; we just need to change the lens with which we see the world.

There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.

Each time your mind changes your whole world is changed.

It is your understanding that is going to change your reality.

I needed to change the lens through which I viewed everything familiar.

We can teach ourselves to see things the way they ARE. Only with vision can we begin to see things the way they CAN BE.

It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that is just as wonderful that he should see with them; and that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.

By seeing differently, we do differently

Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light.

When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.