In other words, we never meet anything totally or purely. We see everything through the lens of thought. The way that you think determines what you will actually discover.

Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are—or, as we are conditioned to see it.

See things not as they are, but as you see them.

We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are. —ANAÏS NIN, AUTHOR AND DIARIST

We tend only to believe what we can see, and what we see is always filtered by our personal perception.