"You create your reality"

[Aion]

I would venture to suggest that the word 'create' has been largely conflated in that it encompasses many ideas. I think when people think of creating their reality they see it from the 'builder' where the individual by some mechanism of mind, body and spirit is able to 'put together' pieces of one's life like Lego blocks. The idea that what you are thinking has a causal link to what you experience.

I think that it is actually not true that we 'create' our reality. That is a misapprehension because truly every has already been 'created' and instead we are playing or exploring. So it would be more appropriate to say that you 'play' your reality. This makes more sense to me because it clearly establishes the relationship between the self and the other, one that is somewhat game-like I have found.

I play with reality as a playmate, a friend. Or like a musician jamming with other musicians. We are an extension of creation, rather than it being something that we do. Creativity is happening as us.

This also is a more reasonable explanation for why sometimes 'bad things happen to good people', because you're not the only player and the reality you are playing in is One with all the other realities. Why do you think separation was sought? Freedom from other selves.