"When
we arrive in this realm through the physical body, our vision gets
veiled, meaning that our perception diminishes. Thus, we take the real
for the unreal, and we believe the unreal to be real. This is the main
source of human suffering. We then continue to deal with suffering until
we reach a saturation point and get tired of it. At that point, we
start seeing that there may be something wrong with our perception, and
so begin the work of self-awareness by increasing our perception. That's
how we remove the veil of ignorance that covers our higher self."
Sri Prem Baba