It’s not only a question of perspective, but perhaps also one of simplicity devoid of assumptions and or expectations. While we do not control all the events in our lives, we do have the capability to see things as they are, naked of all the baggage we pile on. ”Whether it is a dirty window, a pair of glasses with smudges or reflections of something else, or a mood that affects everything that happens to us, he offers a reminder that we see the world as we choose to see it. When he discovered this, his grandmother with humor stated, “Got a dirty eye, see a dirty world…. In his book, The Book of Awakening, Mark Nepo speaks about how we see the world using the example of his grandmother looking out through her only window and complaining about how gray the day was, only to realize that the window was dirty.
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