The power of ignorance

Even the highly intelligent, educated, talented, experienced, knowledgeable, loving and sympathetic human minds might be functioning under the influence of ignorance and egoism, dualism and separateness, the idea of 'I' and 'my', the sense of accomplishment and the sense of belonging, while thinking and believing that oneself is free from ignorance, or somehow less ignorant than the others, while perceiving the suffering of selfless impermanent changes, being determined by the absence and presence of pleasant/unpleasant, desirable/undesirable and agreeable/disagreeable names and forms.