Cloudscape

We are ourselves - I am I and you are you - because we perceive ourselves. We are, then, who or what we perceive. We are, therefore, just as much the world we perceive as our minds we perceive. Mind and matter are but two parts of our perception. Matter, therefore, even if it has a discrete existence on its own, is at the same time part of our own mind.
But the world around us - within us - does things we do not choose to do. This is because we are not conscious of doing them, just like we do not choose anything that happens in our mind - addictions, complexes, phobia… The first step to gaining control over our subconscious is to become conscious of it rather than, as we often do, repressing it.