Like all dualities on Earth, perception has its two parts. Accurate perceptions is what you hope is the norm. However, your life experience very quickly will reveal your misperceiving. As it turns out, misperceiving serves a very valuable lesson. Things don't work out the way you expect them when you do not see the situation correctly.

One of your spiritual leaders, the Dalai Lama, in conversation with Western researchers, came up with the descriptors Destructive and Healthy Emotions. More than likely, when you are able to live in the reality of healthy emotions, you also have accurate perceptions. When you are plagued by incomplete issues from the past, you suppress and deny, you are under the influence of destructive emotions that cloud your seeing and you are misperceiving. See Roberto Kaplan's story about misperceiving.
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