The mental plane, on which all of humanity's collective affairs take place on, is to the real you like the earth is to the sun.
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Your self-image exists in this shared, interconnected web superimposed on reality by our minds.
But that is just your image—a reflection, not the real you.
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The real you is that which sees the image, illuminating this plane with consciousness like the sun illuminates the earth with its light.
And just as the sun is ever-unaffected by what happens on the earth, so are You untouched by the mental plane.