![Image](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--9lnEizCD_A/Xq7R901qmVI/AAAAAAAAG-4/Hq43isbTgZIpqT_mcBBrMFTLDhUgn1JGQCLcBGAsYHQ/s200/mind%2Btricks.jpg) The mind can play tricks. Your expectations can alter the way you experience reality. Years ago I experienced this effect and have never forgotten the lesson it taught me. In the pet store where I worked, my boss had placed a solid air freshener in the hallway. We were always doing this to fight the smells that some customers find objectionable, even in a clean pet shop. As I walked by the new air freshener I picked it up to smell it. The waxy material inside was a nice creamy off-white color. I lifted it to my nose and took a whiff and smelled the most delicious vanilla scent. Then I looked at the label. It said "unscented". No, it couldn't be. I smelled vanilla. I was positive. I sniffed it again, but this time the vanilla scent wasn't there. There was no detectable scent at all. The vanilla had been all in my mind, just because the color had made me expect to smell vanilla-- or, that's my theory. This experience has made me question how I experience reality. If I expect something, I often question whether my expectation is coloring what I experience-- I try to recognize my expectations and guard against them. I know it's probably not possible to completely rid myself of expectations and false experience, but I do believe I'm better at it than I was before I was punched in the face with that wake-up call. So, when people expect government to be a credible source, I understand why they experience it as one. Even though the scent of credibility is all in their imagination. That's the only place where political "authority" resides. - *Thank you for helping support [KentforLiberty.com](http://kentforliberty.com/index.html). **I hope I add something you find valuable enough to support**. If so... [Donations and subscriptions](PayPal.Me/Dullhawk) are **always** appreciated!* *Find me on [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/kentforliberty)*
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The problem i have had with this philosophy is that the rabbit hole doesn't end. The Zen saying > "Before a man studies Zen, to him mountains are mountains and waters are waters; after he gets an insight into the truth of Zen through the instruction of a good master, mountains to him are not mountains and waters are not waters; but after this when he really attains to the abode of rest, mountains are once more mountains and waters are waters." Look deep enough and your expectations do not create your "subjective" reality, they create your REALITY. The universe, through synchronicity, will have you meet and observe the things you expect to see. Two people walking down the same street may experience two very different experiences just based on where their eyes "happen" to gaze. One could see all the homeless, the other the new store windows... My problem came about because i tried to get down to the real reality. To look at everything without judgement. I found that it doesn't exist. And then, in order to live in this world and interact with people i had to put many expectations back in place. The only difference is i know that they are there. I was simply not able to live and interact without having boxes to put things in.
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Yeah, you can take this to a point where you can't function. I mean, at its base, matter is just little kinks in spacetime rather than anything "material", but that's not how we generally experience it unless we are crazy to begin with.
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