Extract from: Dibs In Search of Self, Virginia M. Axline, 
The White Performance (2011)
Now, it is not a matter of all black and white. It is not a matter of 'this is it' because there is no glaring light of unequivocal evidence in which one sees a thing as it is and one knows the answers. ... For when horizons grow or diminish within a person the distances are not measurable by other people. Understanding grows from personal experience that enables a person to see and feel in ways so varied and so full of changeable meanings that one's self-awareness is the determining factor. Here one can admit more readily that the substances of a shadowy world are projected out of our personal thoughts, attitudes, emotions, needs.
(p. 15, 1990): Publisher Penguin Books.