The Last Great Beyond ~ Thought for the Day by Kirk Wiesler

I would like to invite you to read today’s powerful pull quotes from the great BEYOND illusions.

Is reality set and real or is it fleeting and subjective?  Is the way I perceive the world right now really the way the world is, or is this just my current perception?

Often what is perceived as real is not in agreement with the true facts in the environment.  Spin yourself around quickly ten times and the room starts to spin – but is it really spinning?  Stare at a revolving disk with a spiral design on it and you will perceive movement that isn’t real.  Sit in a car at a stoplight and, if the car beside you starts to roll backward, you get the physical sensation that your car is moving forward and you instinctively press harder on the brake.

Shakespeare wrote, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so”.  I suggest similarly that there is nothing good or bad but perception makes it so.  If I decide that a bad situation is actually in some way good – then it is.  Real magic is our ability to change – to turn a bad deal into a good deal – simply by changing the way we look at it.  That is the power of positive perception; and it is powerful magic.

Stephen Covey says it this way, “It isn’t what happens to us that affects our behavior.  It is our interpretation of what happens to us.  And when we can learn to get a better paradigm – get to a different level of thinking – then we are on the road to significant improvement.”  He calls this the essence of self-determination.    I call it the Power of Positive Perception.

“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”~ -Theodore Rubin

Believe in magic.   Not rabbits coming out of  hats magic, but real magic – magic that comes out of challenging our interpretations of reality to choose a perspective that creates more options than might first appear.  Beyond Illusions

I know you will enjoy Beyond Illusions…and that it can help you to help others to move beyond their own disabling illusions and help them to change the way they see the world, and themselves in the world.  It can help us to see past the timid little kitten and find the courage to awaken and realize the great lion of our potential.  And it can help us to help others to do the same.

Kirk Out