We develop behavior patterns and emotional coping mechanisms to cover up the emptiness, mistakenly believing that the resulting traits represent our true “personality.” Indeed, what we call the personality is often a jumble of genuine traits and adopted coping styles that do not reflect our true self at all but the loss of it.
Gabor Mate (posted by steve-kim)
1000reasonsnottostartmakingart: ‘So, how to make sense of it all? How to work to unravel your own true self?’
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psst…
Been researching on this today. I think these specific words get us off on the wrong tack, though Mate is pushing in the right general (helpful) direction. Will be writing an article/post on this soonish.
In the meantime, off the top of my head, maybe Flow or The War of Art.
