Category Archives: Reality

Reality and Perception. Reality is Perception? Perception is reality? Views on the real, our stories, egos and truth.

Why are we treated as we are by others? And, How can we change how they treat us?

If everyone is our mirror, it then also follows that everyone treats us as a reflection of our inner selves. Thus, other peoples treatment of us is their mirroring of our countenances back to us. If they treat us with a … Continue reading

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Grateful that there are those less fortunate than yourself?

Ever feel grateful to realize that there is someone less fortunate than yourself?  Someone less beautiful?  Some who has even less money?  More debt?  Greater pain?  More grief?  Etc? Have you even perhaps tried the exercise of thinking of those … Continue reading

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Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Who is the Fairest…

Mirror Mirror on the Wall, who is the fairest of us all? Continue reading

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Time, The Coin of Life

Have you ever rushed to get somewhere, mindless of and frustrated by where you were? The time between the here you were and the there you wanted to be? In my past, I had often rushed to get somewhere in just such hurried harried haste. At some point, when we learn better, we realize joy and life are the journey itself. Continue reading

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What may be better than Hope?

When we are hoping, we may be giving up responsibility. When so doing, we may in fact manifest a worse outcome than had we been less than hopeful. In this mode, hope is used as a kind of crutch. As with any crutch, we are handicapped when using one properly. Continue reading

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Authenticity, is it how we arrive?

Have you ever considered how the life we perceive is one big mirror, and if we are seeing inauthenticity, inauthenticity may in affect be our own reflection? Continue reading

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Special Occasion Patience Parable

Special Occasion Patience Parable: ‘This, – he said – isn’t any ordinary package.’ He unwrapped the box and stared at both the silk paper and the box. Continue reading

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The Glass is Half Full – Good. So, Why Consider a Broader View?

If you attach yourself to any particular outcome, you will become an optimist or a pessimist. A positive realist avoids this attachment. In any situation, we are free to choose our reaction to the situation. There are bright sides to any situation. There is goodness in everything. Choose to be positive and realistic.

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We learn to do something by doing it. — John Holt

Can we by thinking about a thing, experience the thing by proxy and thereby learn its lessons indirectly? Continue reading

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Show up and See them as they are now

When you see someone you have known and not seen in a while, parent, friend, child, associate, whatever, try showing up as who you are now. While you are at it, ask them, “Who are you now”? Continue reading

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