People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves must examine everything, and soak up learning the way the roots of a tree soak up water.
Being a creative mind, you have to examine who you are every day.
I think one of the shortcomings of reality, of real experience, is most people's inability to examine something carefully and thoughtfully without moving around or being distracted by something else. What photography does really is it forces you to examine something you normally wouldn't.
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
To snatch the passing moment and examine it for signs of eternity is the noblest of occupations.