““One thing became clear as I thought back to my stay in Quirishari. Every time I had doubted one of my consultants' explanations, my understanding of the Ashaninca view of reality had seized up; conversely, on the rare occasions that I had managed to silence my doubts, my understanding of local reality had been enhanced — as if there were times when one had to believe in order to see, rather than the other way around.””
![“What I lacked [in La Nausee] was a sense of reality. I have changed since. I have slowly learned to experience reality.” quote by Jean-Paul Sartre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3d2/jean-paul-sartre-220_changed_what-i-lacked-in-la-nausee-was-a-sense-o_1138680.jpg)
