by Art Moran

Created on: June 25, 2008   Last Updated: December 26, 2008

We've all heard the saying;"I think, therefore, I am." Ironically, we can "think" all we want that we're something, but unless we transmute such thoughts, and couple it with action, we likely will never equal our thoughts. Reality trumps perception nearly every time.

Perception derives from thought, which translates one's ability to understand, or think. Therefore, one's perception is clearly not reality! Not unless it is backed up by action. Then, and only then, can we become the product, or reality of our perceptions.

Based on the simple principle that perception centers around a thought, and requires a direct action or a decision, we should not, nor cannot accredit perception as reality.

However, our perception does enable a mental or conscious awareness, which can then alter our thoughts, and by virtue of our choices, or our actions, become a reality.

Much like the central focus surrounding the laws of attraction, we can indeed manifest our thoughts whether positive or negative, to guide our steps in a direction of our choosing, therefore ending in the making of a reality.

But then, we must ask ourselves; "what of those who lack the mental capacity to interpret their perceptions?, or those who are victimized by the actions of another?

Perhaps, all because the other persons perception of reality, combined with their actions, causes adverse affects towards the victim's life or even their initial perception?

So then, if we were to believe reality is established by our perceptions, why then are we often experiencing something completely the opposite of that which we initially perceived?

Because reality in it's totality is established through action, whereas perception initiates the conscious awareness leading to our thoughts or understanding, which when transmuted into action, can then, and only then become a reality.

Therefore, trying to associate one's perception as a reality, is to the likeness of interpreting a wild fantasy or a dream, which clearly is not a reality unless the decision is made to apply action in making it become a reality. And even then, some initial perceptions prove to be nothing more than a deceitful lie, unobtainable, in-acquirable, and unlikely ever going to become a reality.

We see people everyday being deceived by con artists, as they are able to manipulate other people's perceptions. Leading to an entirely different reality than that of which the victim or recipient had foreseen, and later or eventually comes to realize was indeed wrong.

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