Whose reality? Mine? Yours? The other guy's?
The answer is 'Yes'.
So how can we see everyone's reality? If its hard to do so, its only because we do not know how. Read about 'emotional intelligence' and 'social intelligence' if you want the modern, western approach. Vipassana meditation will give you the approach as taught by the Buddha. I find both approaches to be highly complementary.
So how to remain decisive and avoid analysis-paralysis in the process of understanding 'reality'. After all, 'action' is the end goal, not the intellectual satisfaction of understanding 'reality'.
Well... examine and understand your reality to know the answer! But wait, what about those other 'realities'?? :-)
Is it easy to figure this out? Of course not. But then the really important things in life don't seem to be easy. Maybe they are not meant to be. That is another reality to deal with.
Many of us spend life fretting about what others may think about us. The truth is bar the very few masters in the human race - most of us have little control on the thoughts that come and go in our mind. Millions of disparate thoughts appear and disappear on our mind every day. They evoke emotions and sometimes spark an action. How often have do we notice these phenomena ? If we could get control over this we'll be true masters of ourselves.
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