Perceptions Are Not Facts — What You Perceive to be True Becomes Your Reality

We perceive the world as we are

Thomas Oppong
Mind Cafe
Published in
4 min readFeb 26, 2023

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“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth,” Marcus Aurelius said.

Reality is much more complicated and multifaceted than what we perceive. Reality is not always the same regardless of what we perceive…

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Thomas Oppong
Mind Cafe

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