You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you.
We see what we want to believe.
The prism through which you experience life is so unique. There is no objective experience.
We occupy a space of our own creation-a collage compounded by bits and pieces of actuality arranged into a design determined by our internal perceptions, our hopes, our fears, our memories, and our anticipations.
She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.
We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.
It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.
It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.
We only have our nervous system to paint.
Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind.
Obviously, we all look at things through the filter of our own experiences.
I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass.
I think people hear the question they want to hear.
The reality is in this head. Mine. I'm the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, and sometimes other orifices also.
The reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.
