And here's an example of why it's taking me so long to finish:
“You have a mental image not only of who the other person is, but also of who you are, especially in relation to the person you are interacting with. So you are not relating with that person at all, but who you think you are relating to, who you think the other person is and vice versa. The conceptual image your mind has made of yourself is relating to its own creation, which is the conceptual image it has made of the other person. The other person’s mind has probably done the same, so every egoic interaction between two people is in reality the interaction between four conceptual mind-made identities that are ultimately fictions. It is therefore not surprising there is so much conflict in relationships. There is no true relationship.”
- Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening To Your Life's Purpose
kathryn, you don't really believe all that do you? Certainly one's perceptions influence one's interactions, but I don't believe it is all that convoluted. The exception being, when you can't truly be yourself because the other person is a whirlwind of emotions and attitudes. Friends like you for who you are, not who they want you to be.
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