Reply #12: Yes it seems we choose things that reinforce our reality, belief, fears, etc.

[Dover]

It keeps that reality alive for us. It's the egoic reality, though. And it means we haven't fully accepted and found the beauty in what is all around us and within us.

We cannot ultimately change or create peace and truth until we've died to the painful reality we are currently choosing. Peace is within...not as an abstract concept, but as a living reality. What I see (and of course the political venue at DU would amplify this even more)
is a continuing investment (hope?) in the 'old' fear-based reality, and again we will hit a wall and discover it to be an illusion...even if some apparent changes make us feel better initially. The same patterns are repeating themselves, and we are ultimately rearranging the furniture within the same room. We believe this candidate, that situation, some change 'out there' will surely turn the tide if only we focus enough of our energy there. Same song second, third, fourth verse. First we construct the great hope for something other than where we are, then the eventual disillusionment and finally the anger and pain increases chipping away at our fiercely protected and maintained realtiy. Rinse, repeat. Peace and love and light are available to us now, whenever we're ready to receive it....within. The rest is just noise and distraction and fear.