We don't see people as they are. We see people as we are.

We see things not as they are, but as we are. Because it is the 'I' behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.

Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are.

As the author Anaïs Nin said, ‘We see things not as they are, but as we are.

you are not what you think you are; but what you think, you are.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are, or as we are conditioned to see it.

You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be.

You are what you are not and are not what you are.

Is it only when you’re in love with another person that you see them as they really are? And in the ordinary way, when you’re not in love, you see only a fragmented version of that being? Because when you’re in love with someone, you do indeed see them as a divine being. And suppose that’s what they are, truly. And your eyes have, by your beloved, been opened. If you should be so fortunate as to encounter this spiritual experience, it seems to me to be a total denial of life to refuse it.

You become what you envision yourself being.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.~Dag Redwing Hickory Bluefield

When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.

To see ourselves as others see us!

If you receive things just as an echo of yourself, you do not really see them, you do not fully accept them as they are.