As for instance on such a trip through China where I understood nothing I could say nothing I felt as if I had gone back to the time I was three or four years old and I walked round in a world I could not yet recognize, a world without signs literally.

So then you return to the state of consciousness you were in when you were a child in which everything is always new always different. And then you understand how deeply we are conditioned in our perceptions. You ascribe them to Reality but Reality does not exist; it is your perception of reality only.

You return to the roots of your thoughts and actions.