"We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe."

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We are so well trained that we are our own domesticator. We are an autodomesticated animal. We can now domesticate ourselves according to the same belief system we were given, and using the same system of punishment and reward. We punish ourselves when we don't follow the rules according to our belief system; we reward ourselves when we are the "good boy" or "good girl".

— Miguel Angel Ruiz