Word of the Week: Perception.

The act or faculty of apprehending by means of the senses or the mind; cognition; understanding. Immediate or intuitive recognition, as of moral or aesthetic qualities; the result to perceiving as opposed to the act of perceiving; a single unified awareness derived from sensory processes while a stimulus is present (Psychiatry). Comprehension.

~Self-Improvement: The Basis for Community Development 

Four Great Impediments To Self-Development, Study Guide #12, Glossary

"...How do we not become Satan?

The Muslims says, "I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Satan." If we see Satan as a force of Self that can damage our perception as a result of some desire or uncontrolled need, then we realize that we must always have God with us in order to perceive properly. We always run the risk of perception being colored by our own mood, attitude or limited knowledge.

By becoming Satan, we mean adopting an attitude that we are better...."

~Self-Improvement: The Basis for Community Development

Study Guide #12, Four Great Impediments To Self-Development, Analysis

Looking back on your life, would you say you ever perceived someone or something improperly? What caused you to misperceive the person or thing incorrectly? Since discovering you were wrong, what have you done to correct an action you may have taken that was based on your misperception?

Self-Improvement: The Basis for Community Development

Study Guide #20, Closing the Gap-Part 5, Question 1