The mask of ego prevents us from being our true selves by trapping us in a “false self”. “If you wear a mask long enough, you begin to forget who you are beneath it” ~ Unknown We all have an idea of who we are.
But it’s often our ego that defines our identity rather than our true self. You can mistake your ego as your personality or you may call it image, conditioning, outer persona, mind-identified state or even false identity.
Irrespective of what you may call it, this is the “false self” that makes us believe that we are what we think we are. But that is rarely the truth.
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