It is also true that whan we see boredom and ugliness in things, the boredom and ugliness are really in ourselves...
Subjective reality is the only reality YOU know. Everything YOU have decided is true you have literally made up. (For an in-depth discussion read Steve Pavlina: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/subjective-reality-qa/)
Everything comes through you, through your senses. You take in this input and combine it with memories, attitudes, beliefs and editiorials you have accumulated, and you spit out YOUR interpretation of things. This is why people have different opinions. There is only one set of facts, but it is the memories, attitudes, beliefs and editiorials that shape your opinion. It is a fact that George W. Bush raised the debt by 115%, while Barrack Obama has only raised it by 16% through April/2011, but there are millions of people that would draw their swords and fight you to the death, before they would accept this. Why? Because they don't believe it to be so.
Reality is what YOU believe it to be. There is actually nothing "out there" unless you believe it. You are Consciousness, nothing more or less. But if you believe you are only a body with a mind, then that is your reality. If you believe in an objective Universe, then that will be your reality.
How does this manifest itself to us in our daily lives? What YOU believe to be true is what you will know. Beliefs are thoughts. Thoughts are creative, so "a belief is a statement about the nature of reality" (Pavlina). A belief then is a choice. YOU are choosing YOUR reality through it. You are free to believe anything, and it will be true for YOU, even if your choice is to believe you don't have a choice...
Some people are completely stuck, because they don't believe they can change their beliefs. THEY believe that things are fixed. THEIR fixed beliefs tell them that some things are ugly, wrong, stupid and a host of other negative judgments. But there is nothing ugly, stupid or wrong "out there." All of that is "in here." God is all things, including you. But if you believe you are separate from God, whether because someone told you so or not, that is YOUR reality. God is all things, therefore how could anything that is God, be ugly, stupid or wrong? How? Because you believe them to be, and YOUR reality is that.
Today, observe yourself pinning YOUR beliefs onto others and other things. Catch yourself labelling things according to your beliefs and recognize that there is no intrinsic value to them, only that YOU are assigning their value. YOU are projecting YOUR beliefs onto them. Allow yourself to change your beliefs, for when we see magic and beauty in things, the magic and beauty are really in ourselves...
Duffy
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