
Your handywork reveals,
In the grain of wood.
What nature conceals,
God's presence is good.
To give form to confusion,
you bring about change.
Granted your perception,
materials to arrange.

Everyone in the world mistakenly believes they are seeing the same reality. In one sense, reality is a static situation but how it appears to us will depend on what we read into it, and that is decided by our individual perception.

If you're a believer, what does God "look like" to you?
Teaching Cops to See Source: smithsonianmag.com
At New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Amy Herman schools police in the fine art of deductive observation.

This is always a difficult question to get consensus on because no one has ever died and come back to tell the world what happens.
We are too quick to label childrenSource: Brisbane Times
Back in the last century when I was teaching there was a favourite staff room story of the student teacher who, on his first day, found an alphabetical class list with a number next to each student's name.
Use it or Lose it? Uncovering the 'Forgotten' LanguageSource: Science Daily
Many of us learn a foreign language when we are young, but in some cases, exposure to that language is brief and we never get to hear or practice it subsequently. Our subjective impression is often that the neglected language completely fades away from our memory.

President Barack Obama has been basking in the afterglow of the G20 summit and the United nations address. It was an undisputed success. His leadership acumen and his ability to work with other leaders shone through greatly.

Perception, especially of our world and our neighbours, can often be very misleading. We read/listen to all kinds of things in the media then believe every word, regardless of our own personal and family situation.

Without exception, all relationships have stages. Even though everyone is unique, there is enough consistency in human action to demonstrate noticeable patterns in behaviour.

We tend to get into a narrow mode of negative thinking which dictates the quality of the life we have. The most common thoughts involve some or all of the following, listed in descending order of their potential to damage our self-esteem:
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Low self-esteem can damage relationships because it is not a positive feel-good thing. It can be very destructive and soul-destroying.

To realise just how powerful personal perception can be, how it dictates our reality, I only have to look at my youth. Before I came to Britain 42 years ago, I thought England meant Britain, i.e.

Once a couple settles into a relationship it is easy to believe that they will both be seeing eye to eye on routine matters, or they hold similar perceptions on life.

Most people fall in love but it isn't quite the random process many of us might believe it is. No matter whom we fall in love with, and how coincidental it seems, there was a definite pattern to it.

In any ordinary day two people might meet who come from different sides of the tracks, one a vegetarian, perhaps, and the other a meat eater.

With a change in my circumstances and recent problems in my life, I have been trying to define success and what it really means to each of us and I think I have worked out its foundations.

According to a popular handbook for managers, a good manager motivates others by "encouraging ambition, the desire to achieve and a wish to contribute to the collective good of the business".

Self-esteem is the opinion we have of ourselves.