Reading Four Agreements

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attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive. We can perceive millions of things simultaneously, but using our attention, we can hold whatever we want to perceive in the foreground of our mind. The adults around us hooked our attention and put information into our minds through repetition. That is the way we learned everything we know by using attention. We learned a whole reality, whole dream. We learned how to behave in society, what to believe and what not to believe what is acceptable and what is not acceptable, what is good and what is bad, what is beautiful and what is ugly, what is right and what is wrong? It was all there already, all that knowledge, all those rules in concepts about how to behave in this world.