Summary
Self-knowledge is essential for understanding others and improving our relationship with everything that exists. Without clarity about life and ourselves, we conjure up daydreams to endure suffering, failing to live each moment fully. Overcoming our limitations in knowledge, emotion, and spirituality requires opening our hearts to what surrounds us. Doubt helps us reassess ourselves and recognize that we know nothing.
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We live in a world where emotion is prioritized. People's emotional highs and lows are prioritized. When we are at the height of emotion, we confuse emotion with joy, love, victory, competition, and desire. This perspective may be mistaken.
The great idea of our life is to find a path to improve our relationship with everything that exists. To relate well to another person, the best path is to take care of yourself, so that you can then relate better to everything around you. We discover countless things in this learning process. First, we need to understand who we are. Self-knowledge is fundamental to seeing others and applies to relationships not only with people but also with animals, plants, and spirituality. Walking in such a way that the world becomes clear to us is essential.
We need to understand all of this clearly in order to understand life and ourselves better. Otherwise, we will go through life telling stories we have created in order to continue living, remaining in one great daydream instead of reality. Imagine spending 60, 70, or 80 years in a daydream without fully living one’s relationships with what exists. To me, the relationship with things is a total success. Throughout all reincarnations and lives, we learn to see the world in a way that minimizes our suffering. We create this daydream to endure what is around us and what we find within ourselves, which prevents us from living life fully.
Our life is made up of each moment and everything we can perceive around us and within ourselves. The expansion we can attain is immense, because we will break our limits of competence, which include knowledge, emotion, and spirituality. To overcome them, we need to open our hearts to everything around us. Although it is not simple, it is worth trying to understand in order to follow a better path, making positive use of everything. This understanding is fundamental to our inner growth. Doubt helps us review ourselves and remember that we know nothing.
Questions raised by this material
- How does self-knowledge help improve relationships?
- Why do we turn to daydreaming to cope with reality?
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How to cite
Esagüi, M. (2025, April 17). To evolve is to leave daydreams behind and move toward reality [Video]. Center for Consciousness Studies. https://centrodeestudos.org/en/library/to-evolve-is-to-leave-daydreams-behind-and-move-toward-reality/





