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Masks of The Self
“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are.
— Jim Morrison
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EMOTIONAL PLAGUE
′′ LISTEN LITTLE MAN: Your heritage is a burning diamond in your hand. See yourself as you really are. Listen to what none of your bosses and representatives will ever dare to say to you: You’re a ‘ little ordinary man ‘.
Understand the double meaning of these words: ‘ small ‘ and ‘ any ‘. You are plagued by the emotional plague. You’re a sick, very sick little man. It’s not your fault. But it’s your responsibility to be right about this disease.
It’s possible to get out of the trap. However, to escape from prison you must first admit that you are in prison. Prison is the emotional structure of man, its character structure. It’s poorly useful to devise philosophical systems about the nature of the trap, if the only thing to do to get out of the trap is to know it and find its way out.
Man dressed in armor is isolated from immediate contact with nature, people and trials. Therefore it develops a replacement contact, which is fundamentally characterized by lack of authenticity….
The loss of natural self-perception separates the person, in all the width of his openness, into two opposite and contradictory entities: the body here is…
