Our Tiny Slice of Reality

by Merci Gracia | Feb 25, 2014 | Perception

There’s an incalculable number of activities, events and interactions, both positive and negative, happening in every moment. Each one has an impact on the totality. You can really only know about what you see in front of you. And, even that is filtered through...

Good and Bad

by Merci Gracia | Jan 23, 2014 | Perception

Everything you encounter exists on the continuum between opposites; the plane of polarities. Good and bad are defined in relation to one another and are different only in degree. Without your version of bad, you wouldn’t be able to distinguish good. Independent...

Living Laboratory

by Merci Gracia | Jan 20, 2014 | Appreciation, Perception

The planet you live on is a wondrously diverse, endlessly mutating petri dish of possibility that’s in constant flux. Every person alive experiences this phenomenal unfolding of creation and destruction from a different perspective. Since ‘normal’...

Nothing Is Personal

by Merci Gracia | Nov 22, 2013 | Perception

Everyone sees life through the lens created by their programming. How anyone responds to you has at least as much to do with their filter as it does with the truth of who you are. Because you have no power over that lens, you have no control over their...

Believe

by Merci Gracia | Oct 20, 2013 | Beliefs, Perception

Most everyone thinks their own way of seeing the world is the best. We all have our viewpoints and interpret everything we see in a way that fits in with our paradigm.There’s little point in trying to convince anyone that your way of seeing the world is more...

Stages of Consciousness

by Merci Gracia | Oct 12, 2013 | Beliefs, Conscious, Evolution of Consciousness, Perception, Understanding

The more evolved your consciousness, the better you’re able to understand the viewpoints of others. That’s because each level of consciousness expands beyond and includes the previous level. When you encounter someone with an opinion that you’ve...