So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.
The recognition of the false is already the arising of the real.
It is the stillness that will save and transform the world.
People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images.
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
Science and technology have amplified the effects of the dysfunction of the human mind in its unawakened state to such a degree that humanity, and probably the planet, would not survive for another hundred years if human consciousness remains unchanged.