Re: BUT

>        True, to a point.  There is, however, an aspect that you are
> overlooking.  No amount of perception will make a granite boulder as soft
> as a feather pillow.  Perception is what we use to define reality, but it
> doesn't CHANGE reality.

Actually it depends on how much responsibility & control you are willing to
take for YOUR perceived reality. You could use dynamite to turn the boulder
into dust as "soft as a feather"! "All limitations are self-imposed". YOU can
be 'limited' by or controlled by, your reality. Or you can choose otherwise.
Most Americans seem to have chosen to be VICTIMS of their realities and then
been stupid enough to think the choice was NOT THEIRS! The Democrats &
Liberals have have chosen to also create a "victim society" & then convinced
that society they can "protect" them. Witness the election last year & you
can see some Americans have finally realized the only ones who can save them
is THEMSELVES. The interesting conflict within the Republicans &
conservatives, is that many of them support the Christian Right, which is
more victimized then anyone else, because of their PERCEPTIONS of the
Universe & what Reality is!
Dave B.