If we analyze this confusion whereby we take projections and appearances to be reality, and we ask ourselves how we became so caught up in labels and identities, we can trace the problem back to a basic problem of selfishness. We cling to our judgments and impressions simply because they are our own. This is a form of arrogance. We feel that what appears to us must be reality and what appears to others, if it is different, must be mistaken. Underneath this, our self-centered biases and myopic and distorted perspectives are busy at work filtering appearances and selecting what we notice and
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