Realistic Personality

                                          REALITY...
Things that are real pose no danger to the mind. The real dangers in
the mind are our delusions, the things we make up, the things we use
to cover up reality, the stories, the preconceived notions we impose
on things. When we're trying to live in those stories and notions,
reality is threatening. It's always exposing the cracks in our ideas,
the cracks in our ignorance, the cracks in our desires. As long as we
identify with those make-believe desires, we find that threatening.
But if we learn to become real people ourselves, then reality poses no
dangers.

This is what the meditation is for, teaching yourself how to be real,
to get in touch with what's really going on, to look at your sense of
who you are and take it apart in terms of what it really is, to look
at the things that you find threatening in your life and see what they
really are.

Truth is a quality of the mind that doesn't depend on figuring things
out or being clever. It depends on having integrity in your actions
and in your powers of observation, accepting the truth as it is. You
have to be sensitive both to what you're doing and to the results you
get, so that you can learn to be more and more skillful.What happens
to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and
unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?

Many people think that self-acceptance means celebrating what's there
already: that you're good enough, that you don't have to make any
changes. That's not the case at all.

Acceptance means accepting the fact that you're responsible for a lot
of your experience right now. You can't blame anybody else. And
ultimately that's a good thing. If other people were ultimately
responsible for shaping your experience, what could you do? You'd have
to go around pleasing them all the time. But the key fact is that
you're shaping your pleasures and pains here in the present moment.
Some of your experience comes from past actions, but a lot comes from
the way you shape things with each present intention.

So learn to be open and honest about the role you're playing in this
moment.And remember that, "Reality is that which, when you stop
believing in it, doesn't go away".

So, according to me you should neither be optimistic nor be
pessimistic but REALISTIC.
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