Reality - I

We can never know the thing in itself (...) the mind can never know what is outside of itself. This is to say that an idea as a cognition can never go outside of itself. This can be further expressed as we can never reach to and mentally apprehend anything outside of anything of what is actually a present state of our consciousness.

I am prepared to tell the truth, if you'd like that, though in my own way, not competing with your speeches, which would make me look ridiculous.
But it is the Love whose nature is expressed in good actions, marked by self-control and justice, at the human and divine level that has the greatest power and is the source of all our happiness. It enable us to associate, and be friends, with each other and with the gods, our superiors. ('The Symposium' by Plato)

Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakes. (Jung)