A note on 'change in perception'

 A note on 'change in perception'

 

 Anthony de Mello Says in his awesome book Awareness

“Imagine a patient who goes to a doctor and tells him what he is suffering from. The doctor says, ‘Very well, I’ve understood your symptoms. Do you know what I will do? I will prescribe a medicine for your neighbor!’ The patient replies, ‘Thank you very much, Doctor, that makes me feel much better.’ Isn’t that absurd? But that’s what we all do. The person who is asleep always thinks he’ll feel better if somebody else changes. You’re suffering because you are asleep, but you’re thinking, ‘How wonderful life would be if somebody else would change. How wonderful life would be if my neighbor changed, my wife changed, my boss changed.’

“We see people and things
not as they are, but as
we are.”

It is you who needs to change, it is you who needs to wake up.

We owe it to the world to change for the better. Remember if you don't like something you must change it. Not should but must. That change might be big or small. But it always starts with realizing that something must change.

“Anytime you have a negative feeling toward anyone, you’re living in an
illusion. There’s something seriously wrong with you. You’re not seeing reality. Something inside of you has to change. But what do we generally do when we have a negative feeling? ‘He is to blame, she is to blame. She’s got to change.’ No! The world’s all right. The one who has to change is you.”

We tend to see people as we are rather than as they are. Fault is in our lenses. Next time you find yourself focusing on the ugliness of the world pause for a moment and see if you can find a little more beauty INSIDE you.