Everything I say is perception. Everything I see is perception. Every input and output of information and energy is filtered by me. Every bit of reality is pieced together in such a way to align with my perception.
That means I will be biased sometimes. I will not be able to see, hear, or understand something if I’m not able to perceive it from outside of my frame of reference. Because the mind automatically deletes, distorts, and generalizes information to fit the subconscious values, beliefs, and desires.
This is true of us all.
And even though I try to be unbiased, and I try to see things from every other vantage point, understanding from others’ maps of reality, I’m going to stumble sometimes.
We all do.
But when I was a baby and I stumbled, I got back up.
So why should anything in life be different?
Try new things. Travel. Donate your time to help others. Go out in nature. Play drums at the beach!
Get out of your comfort zone, because if you don’t, you’ll never see beyond your own biases. You won’t know how much freaking love is out there waiting for you to just be able to perceive it.
It’s always been there.
Take off the blinders. Change Your frame of reference. Enhance your map of reality through your experiences.
Because nothing ever stays the same. Yet some people try to force that upon themselves. Don’t ask why. Just know that you don’t have to do that to yourself anymore.
Now hop on my unicorn and let’s go for a ride!
=D
I believe I will forego the unicorn hopping! However your initial message is spot on. A parallel of it is the word: schema. In teaching a child to read, you have to be aware of his life experiences to some extent. His schema. For instance, if you want him to read the words “red wagon” and he has never seen a red wagon, he cannot visualize what those words might mean. So you have to gear the teaching to a child’s life experiences. Schema expands as we experience life, as you have suggested. Love.