Once upon a time a guy  asked a girl, "Will you marry me?"

The girl said,  "No!"

And the girl lived happily ever after and...

From The Daily Om.

Our perception of humanity as a whole is, to a large extent, dualistic.

We paint people with a broad brush: some are like us, sharing our opinions and our attitudes, while others are different.

Susan notes: I love how these Daily Om messages often speak to me directly... so many life lessons to learn, so little time to learn them!

Disappointment provides us a bridge from expectations to acceptance of reality, wisdom, and the energy to begin again.

Whenever we do something in life with an expectation of how we would like it to turn out, we risk experiencing disappointment.