Anais Nin Quotes

each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.

The world you see is less of an indication about the world and more of an indication about your seeing.

Our perceiving self is nowhere to be found in the world-picture, because it itself is the world-picture.

We do not see the lens through which we look.

Paradigms are like glasses. When you have incomplete paradigms about yourself or life in general, it's like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription. That lens affects how you see everything else.

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

I think we all see the world from our own little unique bubble.

For however dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable I.

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.

We see only that which we are.

In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.

The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others.

From what I could see, the hardwood was just fine. Then again, I'd just see a windmill and an open sky, too, never feeling the need to conquer either. You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.

The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .

Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.

We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

What is nonsense, and what is not, then, may be merely a matter of perspective.

Truth" is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on the world.

What you see determines how you interpret the world, which in turn influences what you expect of the world and how you expect the story of your life to unfold.

The thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective.