Unless we’re totally conscious of our programming, our experience of life is based on hidden assumptions. New experiences are collected and woven into our filter that ensures our current model of reality is validated. This filter can create optimism or pessimism, trust or suspicion, even happiness or depression. Though we are, in fact, the authors of our own story, unless we’re aware of this fact, we think the unpleasant things in life are happening to us. When we awaken out of this illusion, no matter what happens, we realize it’s all…

For us.