Our Normal Expectations About Reality Are Created By A Social Consensus. We Are Taught How To See And Understand The World. The Trick Of Socialization Is To Convince Us That The Descriptions We Agree Upon Define The Limits Of The Real World. What We Call Reality Is Only One Way Of Seeing The World, A Way That Is Supported By Social Consensus.

-Carlos Castaneda

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Our Normal Expectations About Reality Are Created

Carlos Castaneda

Our Normal Expectations About Reality Are Created By A Social Consensus. We Are Taught How To See And Understand The World. The Trick Of Socialization Is To Convince Us That The Descriptions We Agree Upon Define The Limits Of The Real World. What We Call Reality Is Only One Way Of Seeing The World, A Way That Is Supported By Social Consensus.

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The Difficulty Is To Learn To Perceive With Your Whole Body, Not With Just Your Eyes And Reason. The World Becomes A Stream Of Tremendously Rapid, Unique Events. So You Must Trim Your Body To Make It A Good Receptor. The Body Is An Awareness; And It Must Be Treated Impeccably.

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