We keep saying “I” think this and “I” want that, while at the same time saying that we want to understand what is real! One must come to understand who one is before one can comprehend what is “out there” – if in fact there is anything “out there” that is independent from this “I”.
To know the world is to know oneself, for the world does not exist independently of one's mind. The world is the mind... and to know the mind is to go beyond the mind, to realize one's true nature as infinite being. This is true self-knowledge – the realization that all there is is that which is the All.