
don't deceive yourself

Think about an area of life where you might be lying to yourself. Maybe you’ve promised to do something and you keep putting it off. Maybe you put all the blame on the other person whenever you have a fight with them. Maybe you’ve deluded yourself into believing someone close to you (spouse, friend, etc.) was working on himself when in fact he’s no
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You have to keep stripping yourself down, examining everything you see, getting rid of whatever is blinding you. And sometimes when you get rid of what’s blinding you, you get your eyes opened, you don’t like what you see at all. And that’s the risk. It’s much easier to live in a world you imagined.
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How do you go about figuring out who you are when you spent your life unconsciously playing pretend?
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