People only see what they are prepared to see.
Interpretation
Perception is shaped by one's readiness to understand and accept information.
This quote emphasizes the idea that our perceptions are limited by our own readiness to engage with the truth. It suggests that individuals often overlook or fail to recognize aspects of reality unless they are mentally and emotionally prepared to acknowledge them, highlighting the subjective nature of observation and understanding in human experience.
In practice
During a motivational speech about personal growth.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception.
Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the physic predecessor of all real understanding.
In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
Sometimes it's difficult to accept, to recognise one's own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.
Morning comes every day; the sunrise does not fail, nor the sunset. _x000D_ Give it time. That is all that may be required. Just give it time. Do not try to push the river. The cycles of life present themselves, play themselves out, and make smooth every passage and terrain. _x000D_ Try not to get caught up in your story of the moment. Look, rather, to the Long Story. Therein will be found your peace. The cycles will redeem this moment, if you let them, and even this shall pass.
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