Projection

"To me, the single most powerful tool available to us in our attempt to go beyond our egocentric social conditioning and move into conscious, compassionate awareness is recognizing our projections. Projection means attributing one's own traits to others. From the perspective of spiritual practice, everything you experience is your projection. Everything you think, feel, see, and know is a mirror of yourself. You look out into the world, and because you are looking from yourself through the filter of your personality, the only thing to see is you. You think it's the world you're seeing, but it is the totality of your own preferences, habits, beliefs, and assumptions projected onto the world. The fact that we are unconscious of this idea does not mean it is not so."

-- Cheri Huber