What Do You Really Look Like to Other People?
In my self-reflection, it dawned on me that we human beings live in a duality, as two separate entities—“how we appear” and “who we really are.”
Joe Dispenza • Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One
The ideal woman looks beautiful, happy, carefree, and perfectly competent. Is she really? To look any particular way and to actually be that way are two separate concepts, and striving to look carefree and happy can interfere with your ability to feel so. The internet codifies this problem, makes it inescapable; in recent years, pop culture has sta
... See moreJia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
The eyes are no more important a sense-making tool of the body than the ears, nose, tongue, or skin. Our apprehension of reality is so much more than just seen. And yet, the seen has a much greater share of human culture than the heard, smelled, tasted or felt. That may seem hyperbolic to say, but it has actually been studied! There is quantitative
... See morechrbutler.com • What Eyes Want - Christopher Butler
There’s a mirror-world to this one. We each have an alter ego, a doppel-ganger of us that’s evolving in there. It looks exactly the way we look. Our walking intellect is here on Earth, and while our subconscious mind, our inner impulses, are here in our minds, they also exist in another dimension, the mirror-world. So, it’s important to clean up wh
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