What is Important

Take a step back,
evaluate what is important,
and enjoy life.
- Teri Garr

Laughter gives us distance.
It allows us to step back from an event,
deal with it and then move on.
- Bob Newhart

At some point everything gets a little stale
and you have to step away from it.
- Les Claypool

Winners have the ability to step back
from the canvas of their lives
like an artist gaining perspective.
- Denis Waitley

Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
Take time to contemplate -
away from the opinions and influence of others -
what you really want
and what you believe to be important in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Through the Eyes of Another

Appreciate the Commonplace

Kick Back

Perspective on Diversity
   

Step Back, Gain Perspective

Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
Take time to contemplate -
away from the opinions and influence of others -
what you really want
and what you believe to be important in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Take a step back,
evaluate what is important,
and enjoy life.
- Teri Garr

At some point everything gets a little stale
and you have to step away from it.
- Les Claypool

Laughter gives us distance.
It allows us to step back from an event,
deal with it and then move on.
- Bob Newhart

Winners have the ability to step back
from the canvas of their lives
like an artist gaining perspective.
- Denis Waitley

Further reading: Appreciate the Commonplace

Through the Eyes of Another

Kick Back

Perspective on Diversity
   

Beauty from Contemplation

The beauty does not live out there; the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Nothing is beautiful from every point of view.
- Horace

There is no absolute point of view from which real
and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
- T. S. Eliot

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
- David Hume

Further reading: We see what we expect to see

Finding Beauty

What You See

Through the Eyes of Another
    

Step Back

Take a step back,
evaluate what is important,
and enjoy life.
- Teri Garr

Laughter gives us distance.
It allows us to step back from an event,
deal with it and then move on.
- Bob Newhart

At some point everything gets a little stale
and you have to step away from it.
- Les Claypool

Winners have the ability to step back
from the canvas of their lives
like an artist gaining perspective.
- Denis Waitley

Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
Take time to contemplate -
away from the opinions and influence of others -
what you really want
and what you believe to be important in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Appreciating the Commonplace

Kick Back

Through the Eyes of Another

Perspective on Diversity
   

Know Thyself

Know Thyself - inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi 

 He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. - Lao Tzu 

 How strange that, although we dwell within ourselves, we seldom know what we truly want or what we truly believe about important matters. Take time to contemplate - away from the opinions and influence of others - what you really want and what you believe to be important in your life. 

 Further reading: VISION - the fifth Point of Simply An Inspired Life