By Evelyn Lim
Are your windows on the world clear or clouded? Now, unless you are enlightened, they are probably clouded. Your windows are clouded because of your preconceived judgments. You develop judgments or frames of assumptions as a result of past experiences, conditionings and beliefs. Events in the past may be neutral but it is the meaning that you ascribe to them that determines your judgments or frames of assumptions.
“A peach is not its fuzz. A toad is not its warts. A person is not his or her crankiness. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off once in a while or the light won’t come in.”
- Alan Ada
Perceptual Filtering of the Mind
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