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Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them.

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.

You can't rely on your own perception when it comes to anything. You can always be proved wrong.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.