“In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.”
― ram dass
“In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.” ― ram dass
much of our life is spent avoiding the undercurrent of anxiety that surfaces as we place a mask of happiness (or tragedy) over what on a deeper level we are actually aware of—the present moment.
Richard Freeman • The Mirror of Yoga: Awakening the Intelligence of Body and Mind
You wear many faces. Some you show to the world. Some you keep hidden in the closet. And some you cannot bear to reveal even to yourself.
Kapil Gupta • Atmamun
a paradoxical comprehension is imperative: we must see the ego’s construction of our self-image as an amazing organization of the mind so it can make sense of things and work efficiently, but we must constantly be alert, eager, and ready to dissolve and update the images and stories the ego spins out.
Mary Taylor • The Art of Vinyasa: Awakening Body and Mind through the Practice of Ashtanga Yoga
The issue here is not whether self-veiling can be avoided, or even should be avoided. Indeed, no finite play is possible without it. The issue is whether we are ever willing to drop the veil and openly acknowledge, if only to ourselves, that we have freely chosen to face the world through a mask.