Letting go of Self - Person and Self
Summary
- What each of us really is, is a person.
- For each of use our true identity is the person we are in the world not what we feel ourselves to be.
- What we feel ourselves to be, our individual self, is subjective, part of our inner experience.
- What is actually you, is a person, part of the world, not something inside you.
- You are a person of a certain age, a certain background, and just like other people, your life has taken its particular course.
- The person you are is just as much a person as any other person.
- The person that you are has skills and potentials; and has assets and defects of character.
- Just like other people have their particular mix of the basics that make up a person, so you, a person, have yours.
- Parts of our self that we are not aware of can stop us from using our true intelligence and natural capacities realistically.
- Addiction is a clear example of how a destructive self can run a person and smother their true nature.
- So what is self? The next page gives a simple natural way understanding self.
- You will see how self runs a person without them realising it.