Perspective Deceptions
By Robert J. Tiess
From certain standpoints, piers appeared to let us walk
across the ocean, straight ahead into the sun,
but then we'd move, disprove those views, and see
how angles lie, while truth means journeying.
So we roamed far, on foot, by thought,
past varied panoramas, peaks,
surveying slopes and scenes,
horizons, plateaus, space,
aware what's where
or never there.”
Poem by Robert J. Tiess
“In no situation that arises do you realize the outcome that would make you happy. Therefore, you have no guide to appropriate action, and no way of judging the result. What you do is determined by your perception of the situation, and that perception is wrong. It is inevitable, then, that you will not serve your own best interests. Yet they are your only goal in any situation which is correctly perceived. Otherwise, you will not recognize what they are.”
A Course in Miracles W-24.1:1-6
“If men would bring to bear upon the study of the Science of Mind half the faith they bestow upon the so-called pains and pleasures of material sense, they would not go on from bad to worse, until disciplined by the prison and the scaffold; but the whole human family would be redeemed through the merits of Christ, — through the perception and acceptance of Truth.”
Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 202:5-13
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