Comprehension comes in degrees and is elastic. Sometimes we see things about ourselves in one way today, but an entirely different manner tomorrow.
When comprehension lacks profundity, many egotistical elements process themselves unnoticed beneath the screen of our consciousness.
The solution is to continue developing self-knowledge through meditation, self-observation, self-observation, and to make one's esoteric practices frequent, so as to go for the large fish that swim in deeper waters, not the shallow pools that dry and rot underneath the sun.
For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I the sought. -Bayazid al-Bastami