This week's Awakin reading is by Edited by Frances Vaughan and Roger Walsh titled 'Perception Is A Mirror': You respond to what you perceive, and as you perceive so shall you behave.  Every response you make to everything you perceive is up to you, because your mind determines your perception of it.  You cannot be aware without interpretation, for what you perceive is your interpretation.  Understand that you do not respond to anything directly, but to your interpretation of it. Your interpretation thus becomes the justification for the response.  Perception selects, and makes the world you see. It literally picks it out as the mind directs. The laws of size and shape and brightness would hold, perhaps, if other things were equal. They are not equal. For what you look for you are far more likely to discover than what you would prefer to overlook.  The world can teach no images of you unless you want to learn them.  Reality needs no cooperation from you to be itself.  But your awareness of it needs your help. Perception is a choice of what you want yourself to be; the world you want to live in, and the state ... [Read more]