Question everything with an attitude of humility, my friend, not smugness. You too can learn from some folks here.
"Once upon a time, I, Chuang-tzu, dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting hither and thither, for all intents and purposes a butterfly...suddenly, I awoke. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."
-- Chuang-tzu
You probably won't "get" the above Zen illustration unless you engage in contemplation/meditation of some kind. Here's another quote for you to contemplate on. This one is from the Bhagavad Gita:
"That which is night to the ignorant, is day to the wise; and that which is day to the wise, is night to the ignorant."
Commentary: The ignorant imagine the world as day light and a brightly illumined objective something, and that does not exist for a wise person. The wise see the universal consciousness in all its effulgence and that does not exist for the ignorant. While the wise see that, the ignorant do not; and while the ignorant see the world, the wise do not see it.
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