Everyone we know is, in huge part, a creation of our imagination. We interpret what we hear and see through the filter of our conditioning. We form judgments based on our personal experiences. We hear what they say and make meaning of it according to what fits our desires and beliefs about ourselves, them and life. We might assign qualities to others that are mere projections of what we want to see or we might not see qualities in them we aren’t accustomed to seeing, otherwise. Everyone is a mirror reflecting back to us ourselves and what we’ve created in our minds about them. Everyone is giving us…

The gift of self-awareness.