what did you learn today?

[Plenum]

well, today, I had the particularly sobering realisation that ...

if you don't understand someone else (ie understand or accept what they are doing/saying), it is really a lack of understanding of self, or an aspect of the self.

this is sort of an extension of the idea that other selves are just mirrors for aspects of the self ... but sort of taken to its highest extent; because it would be difficult, it would seem, to understand/appreciate all aspects of the self in one incarnation, and so one can't reasonably expect to understand/appreciate the other-self in every possible situation or encounter; although one can move in the direction of greater understanding always.

the phrase:

"I don't get him."
"I don't understand why he said that."
etc etc with gender reversals of course.

one can't understand the material of everything communicated (there is technical communication, geek communication, gibberish communication), the 'understand' here is referring to 'understanding' where someone is coming from, or their relative viewpoint.

it is an appreciation of relative perspectives.

yeah, so that was the grand understanding today.

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sorta relevant:

54.7 Ra: I am Ra. This statement is substantially correct. If you will penetrate the nature of the first distortion in its application of self knowing self, you may begin to distinguish the hallmark of an Infinite Creator, variety. Were there no potentials for misunderstanding and, therefore, understanding, there would be no experience.