"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."

This quote defines a lot of things.

• I suppose it can be about lettings go of who we thought were, and letting go of the fixed attitudes that preserve us within the equal psychological place, that will inevitably go away us in a place of no longer figuring out who we rather are, which might suppose like being misplaced. There has to be a relatively neutral area into which real working out can enter.
• It is about when the rubber meets the street; not unless we're in predicament will we see what we're rather manufactured from, scan our mettle; it can be a quote that wholly is familiar with the human mind's penchant for self-deception, denial if you're going to; all of us are inclined to consider we all know what we'd do in a situation however unless we stand on our possess in the course of the unknown can we even start to peer our authentic self in action, now not just phrases.

A man could have hundreds of interpretations, well these are mine.