How many people do you know, or have you encountered in your life, who see their own horn in the image of the world and then draw the world with that horn? It does not matter how talented or intelligent we think we are. The truth is that if we insist on believing that, in understanding other people, the world and the events around us, it is always we who see correctly, think correctly and are right, that very certainty inevitably prevents us from recognising that what we see outside is often only a reflection of ourselves and of the thought we already hold, not necessarily the truth about others or the external world.

Even an image of which we are utterly certain may in fact be very far from the reality of the world outside. At times, what we see in others and accuse them of possessing is simply an unseen part of our own personality that we cannot see. If we forget introspection and the examination of the shadows of our personality, we often see in the image of the world and of other people a horn before our eyes that, from the beginning, belonged only to us.

Aydin Areta