We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do.

We see people not as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

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

People assume that they perceive reality as it is, that our senses accurately record the outside world. Yet the science suggests that, in important ways, people experience reality not as it is, but as they expect it to be.

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

We assume that others think the way we think, feel the way we feel, judge the way we judge, and abuse the way we abuse. This is the biggest assumption that humans make. And this is why we have a fear of being ourselves around others.

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do. We assume that others think the way we think, feel the way we feel, judge the way we judge, and abuse the way we abuse. This is the biggest assumption that humans make. And this is why we have a fear of being ourselves around others. Because we think everyone else will judge us, victimize us, abuse us, and blame us as we do ourselves. So even before others have a chance to reject us, we have already rejected ourselves. That is the way the human mind works.

Most people go through life assuming that they’re right … and that people who don’t see things their way are wrong.

Most of us, it seems, have a strong inclination to accept the peculiarities of our social environment as if they were ‘natural’.

Our “realities” are determined by how we habitually perceive ourselves and our worlds.

Imagine, always pretending to run a world. Always imitating the sort of people they think they might be if the world were the sort of world it isn't. Pretending to be words like 'normal' and 'wholesome' and 'honest' and 'decent' and 'self-respecting' and all the rest, when even the words aren't real. Imagine, being people.

Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware.

We have become so accustomed to our illusions that we mistake them for reality.