We all have a symbol of ourself, an image of ourself. We have an idea of what we should be and what we should not be. And our that idea about ourselves springs from our memory and is our escape from the fact of what we are. We think we should be this or that, always identifying with an ideal, a hero or an example.
So we are always living in a personal world- a purely accidental world, a world of ideation and myth and never in the world of actuality.
But to observe what is, to see it, actually be familiar with it, there must be no judgment, no evaluation, no opinion, no fear, free from all our memories and projections.