AlexJ spot on and +1.
If you actually understand a concept, for example the be your own best friend one from here, you'd be actively applying it in your real life. If you believed that were the most important thing you would be *living your life as though* that were the most important thing.
The figureheads here can probably relate too well to comments like:
"I get it that giving space is super important, but [insert story showing the exact opposite of someone who believes that giving space is important]"
Until you're living it, you don't get it. Reading something and saying 'i agree with that' or 'that seems to make sense' is not knowledge. With real knowledge the fake idea between these two so called sides dissolves into one process.
Making it complicated is often more of a convenient way to distract...Most of the good practices I am aware of, meditation etc are not that complicated, they just require consistent practice.
You can have a lifetime full of epiphanies and never change. You need to take action on those epiphanies.
If you truly follow thru on these epiphanies of yours, then you are about to have REALLY good summer.