Why bother about how much understanding one has or how awake they are, when really all that is is the state of their identification. When I know what they are is pure consciousness, and that is what I meet.
So then why would I stop my perception at that superficial surface when their infinite depth is right in front of me. I do not have to share belief in that illusion of a small person. That veil is transparent as I meet the true self.
Its really not about what I think about another or what they say. Allow our meeting to be from and with aspects of our being that are more fundamental. A meeting of, or even a merging of awareness with itself, dancing. Leave the dance of masks be. Show my true self and dance in, as, with that