No matter what your religion or path may be (I believe there are many paths to experiencing our highest inner nature)… it’s a long road to walk for most of us before we can say we live in the knowledge of the Truth.

Whatever one knows is colored by his inner state, his feeling, and is filtered through his personal history, his good and bad actions. Even so,  a person can delude himself into thinking that his limited perception is the absolute Truth. In reality, it is only when the heart is purified and God reveals Himself within, that a person knows directly what is true and what is not true.

— Baba Muktananda, Bhagawan Nityananda of Ganeshpuri, p. 24

It reminds me of the Beatitudes, where Christ said, “Blessed are the pure in  heart, for they shall see God.”