But correct and right were two different things. As were facts and truth.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

That there's a difference 'twixt false and true.

The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

The Course teaches throughout that you have confused the false and true, which includes confusing the world and reality, the ego and yourself, body and mind, pain and joy, imprisonment and freedom, death and life. It is the Holy Spirit’s role to separate the true from the false in your mind and “teach you to tell them apart” (T-7.IX.4:6). What is true, He teaches, is characterized by love, not fear (T-1.50.2:3-5); wholeness, not lack (T-1.48.19:1-2); and sharing, not exclusion (T-6.III.8:1-3). The true and false are told apart through a process of comparing everything “with the higher level of creation” (T-1.50.1:1). The Holy Spirit therefore “teaches you to judge every thought that you allow to enter in the light of what God put there” (T-6.VII.C.1:4); “to look upon darkness through light

Reality is frequently inaccurate.

I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.

And in it all, where did the truth end and error begin?

When understanding is separated from reality, we lose our powers. Understanding must constantly be tested against reality and updated accordingly

I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be, reality quite literally ceases to exist, so that everything becomes possible except what we are told is the case; and maybe this was the difference between my Indian childhood and Pakistani adolescence — that in the first I was beset by an infinity of alternative realities, while in the second I was adrift, disoriented, amid an equally infinite number of falsenesses, unrealities and lies.

When understanding is separated from reality, we lose our powers. Understanding must constantly be tested against reality and updated accordingly. This isn’t a box we can tick, a task with a definite beginning and end, but a continuous process.

It was the hour of unreality.

The hard part of intellectual life is separating what is true from what will get you liked.