If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.
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I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them.
Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement.
You learn to accept your own reality.
You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.
When you do reality, you have to be pretty careful. You have to almost monitor yourself to make sure that you don't get yourself in situations that you shouldn't.
You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.
I have an unusual type of thinking. I have no visual memory whatsoever. Everything is conceptual to me.
Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.
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