Authenticity is true success.
A few things to clear my point of view and perhaps explain it better: 1. To know thyself is to be thyself.
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The problem arises because you are still attempting to relate something to a phenomenal center, or a self. The question is valid though.
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"How am I supposed to be authentic if there is no such thing as a permanent self?" "What do I refer to so that I *know* I'm authentic?"
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Authenticity is there when there is nothing standing in the way. Conceptual thought is what stands in the way for the most part.
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The self you imagine yourself to be has nothing to do with who you are. This is very hard to realize and accept. But a step toward freedom.
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The more you break off from the conditioned pattern of projecting a self, the more present you are, the more you act in accord with life.
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In that act, that spontaneous letting-go of the mind, as it were, you begin to know yourself, by being it. You experience a different state.
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Authenticity is not either thinking of yourself, or not think of yourself. It is your natural state of being when "you" don't interfere.
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When you are in that state, there is no need to try to encapsulate it in some "method". Hold on to it & you lose it. Let go & you have it.
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Authenticity is in equal parts knowing and not-knowing. Most don't get that. They think authenticity is confirming to an imaginary self.
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So they think and try to create an image of their authentic selves and project it onto reality and so forth. They are genuine fakes.
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Beyond the obvious paradox of being authentic while subservient to a self-image, this also cripples you from the full ability of your mind.
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Your mind contains so much information that makes it up that you cannot ever access conciously and therefore take into account.
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So whatever authentic self you create and attempt to follow, you miss 99% of what really constitutes your mind, & you go against it.
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You have a mind, and a body, and those are what they are by nature and nurture. To impose on them is a losing battle.
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What I'm suggesting is that in becoming aware of yourself and your mind you become more centered both in body and mind.
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And therefore you become able to respond to existence in a different way. An authentic way, a spontaneous way. Without calculating.
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