This leaves me grasping when I read people talk about being more authentic or taking off the masks we wear; to make sense of it, I parse these sayings as "remove the mask you're wearing now to find out what mask is underneath."
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Very Buddhist of you.
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What can I say about the I that is not a mask?
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There is no such thing as a true self: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/authenticity-under-fire/ … We can all relax, and just be.
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I think part of the problem with studying authenticity is that many people don’t know themselves well enough (or honestly enough) to even know if they are being authentic. So they take ‘being my idealized self’ and rebrand it as authenticity
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Underneath all the masks of your phenotype, there's always your genotype -- your one true stable identity. Not a void, but three billion base pairs of wonderful information.
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What I call accessing the character creation screen
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Good book: ‘Till We Have Faces.
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