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When you are in a certain image for a long time, you literally merge with it. Becoming yourself again is like ripping your skin off alive. Scary and painful. What if in vain? It's safer in the usual role. It's easier to go into denial than to believe again, but sometimes you really want to take a chance, what if? ..

When the iron curtain, which you carefully erected for many years, crumbles like chalk, the truth is exposed, and you can easily become what you always wanted to be, but feared. The greatest value is to stop playing hide and seek with yourself. If you are not ashamed to look your own reflection in the eyes, you won.

There were no regrets at all. Rather, joy, shy like a child, but already palpable. A small sprout of freedom was greening inside, somewhere in the solar plexus area, while uncertainly, but still relentlessly making its way through the cracks of the internal organs burned by anger, resentment and alcohol, entangling the lungs with the finest stems, almost transparent. First, the left one, closer to the heart, filling it with oxygen and the desire to live, and then the right one, displacing the remnants of festering memories from the aveols that interfere with breathing.

There are some kangaroos who are very fond of knowledge. Each new knowledge is packed with dignity and pride in a bag. And everything would be fine, but just jumping, as in childhood, is no longer possible. Very heavy bag ...

The best way to test your honesty is to borrow money.

And do not grumble at the same time ..

Step into the fire of self-knowledge, it will not burn you, it will only burn what you are not.

For most people, knowledge of their own personality, as well as knowledge of other personalities, is too hasty, too quickly exhausted. For them, intimacy is established primarily through sexual contact. Since they perceive the alienation of another person primarily as physical alienation, physical unity is taken for overcoming alienation.

You get to know your loved one as well as you know yourself. Or maybe it’s better to say - you know as little as yourself.

It seems that you have a kind soul, but your mind is still wandering in the dark. You are like a boat with two rowers rowing in different directions. This means that you have not yet known your own core.

- I met. With myself.

I'm tired of worrying about it. Tired of trying.

Self-actualization is the highest result of successful personal growth and development. And the finale of self-actualization is characterized by: education and understanding of the path of wisdom; high values: a sense of responsibility for loved ones, comprehension of quiet post-romantic love and devotion; respect for reasonable authority and worthy authorities; finding your place in life, your vocation, where you can put all your abilities and talents; own system of values, the presence of life experience, including both real success and serious losses; courage in aspirations and realism in setting life goals; calm recognition of death and other inevitable losses, the ability to endure the inevitable, acceptance of the natural imperfection of the world, oneself and others; courage to be good, virtuous people, willingness to accept obscurity, lack of recognition.

Here's your first lesson. We are not what we are wearing. And not something that glitters. We are the spirit that lives within us.