“In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.”
― ram dass
“In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.” ― ram dass
We use the term “ego” to signify the inauthentic “I” or self (with a small “s”) that develops to survive in difficult environments and to become acceptable to the conventional world. We view ego as the result of many inevitable adaptations to forces that cannot tolerate the authentic expressions of the Self—helplessness in a small boy develops into
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Our ‘ego’ or self-conception could be pictured as a leaking balloon, forever requiring the helium of external love to remain inflated and vulnerable to the smallest pinpricks of neglect. There is something sobering and absurd in the extent to which we are cheered by attention and damaged by disregard.
Alain de Botton • Status Anxiety (NON-FICTION)
Afraid that our inner light will be extinguished or our inner darkness exposed, we hide our true identities from each other. In the process, we become separated from our own souls. We end up living divided lives, so far removed from the truth we hold within that we cannot know the “integrity that comes from being what you are.”
The Elusive Art of Inner Wholeness and How to Stop Hiding Our Souls
In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.
― Ram Dass
We live in a world of personas constantly trying to project the image that we are stable, unafraid, and “have it together.” We share this currency of persona among one another, constantly reconvincing ourselves that it is what is real about us.