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Thanks you guys.
Rain95, the last thing you said strikes me as very important when it comes to 'true perception'. The 'filter' through which we perceive (and often distort) things is probably the 'self' we think we are. It's been said, 'We see the world as we are.'
Shivani Devi, I had heard the story about the blind men and the elephant long ago but had completely forgotten it, so thanks for mentioning it. I guess we're ALL like the blind men. We experience a fragment of life and take that fragment to be a taste of life itself. It's a good reminder to be open to the fact that there's much we don't know and haven't experienced, including life from the viewpoint of others. As I said in response to Rain95's post, we only see things from OUR OWN self or point of view.
Edit: I just thought of something a writer said once: 'A hundred men crossing a river into a village are a hundred men crossing a hundred rivers into a hundred villages.'
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