We fail to reckon with the reality of human nature. By nature,we are egocentric. Our world revolves around us. None of us is totally altruistic.

Here’s a curious fact about human beings: we have a really hard time realizing that something isn’t there.

Human nature is imperfect.

Humans somehow fail to recognize situations outside the contexts in which they usually learn about them.

I believe we forget who we are over time, and in our state of forgetfulness we struggle and employ all kinds of learned behaviors that don't necessarily help us or bring us happiness. Each of us has a self that exists undamaged and whole, from the moment we are born waiting to be reclaimed.

Human beings are not very good at taking losses or admitting failure.

no podemos ser lo que recordamos,
ni nos atrevemos a pensar en lo que somos.

Human nature is very myopic about its existence. It very much wants to think their current reality is the absolute reality.

Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.

It is no small pity, and should cause us no little shame, that, through our own fault, we do not understand ourselves, or know who we are.

it’s human nature to assume that when we see a mistake, it’s due to defects in someone else’s department, knowledge, or character,

One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are

If you and I go around grumbling about ingratitude, who is to blame? Is it human nature — or is it our ignorance of human nature? Let’s not expect gratitude. Then, if we get some occasionally, it will come as a delightful surprise. If we don’t get it, we won’t be disturbed. Here is the first point I am trying to make in this chapter: It is natural for people to forget to be grateful; so, if we go around expecting gratitude, we are headed straight for a lot of heartaches.

We have become unaware of the magnificence of our true nature on account of our upbringing, conditioning, and education, all of which paint a very different picture of who we are – and all of which we believe.