Usually it is because we are to close to something that we can’t see it. So the problem becomes, for instance, how to distance oneself from reality. To Know the Real you can’t be the Real. If you are what you would know then you’re stuck with tautologies. From self identification (1=1) no knowledge is available. It conveys no information. Isn’t it interesting that nonetheless understanding is available. Everything that is begins and ends with our body consciousness. Hard to break out of this. That is why in ancient Greece, for instance, we have Protagoras proclaiming that man is the measure of all things. On the basis of this it seems to me that the supreme good is taking responsibility, ownership of one’s life. In a sense, then, to own yourself is to own it all.