Our personal realities are patchworks of things we’ve seen, been exposed to, and potentially come to understand, bound together by belief. Our interpretation of the information and stimuli we are given is the product of many influences. Remove any one of those influences, or add another, and one’s worldview may change drastically. Or it may not. We

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By its nature, identity fractures our sense of self and conceals the whole Self that exists at our core. Identity, or your sense of self, is who you know yourself to be at any given moment. It’s created by a thought that tends to be so deceptively simple that it’s often overlooked, but the implications are quite significant: identity shapes one’s... See more

The key thing to understand is that the reality you are experiencing is being filtered and composed by your mind. Your perception is a dominant aspect of your mind; it will take in the information it is encountering and relate it to past memories. Your perception does not just perceive, it also evaluates. Without even bothering to make sure that... See more