“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
When we wear masks for too long, we struggle to locate ourselves beneath them.
Cleo Wade • Remember Love: Words for Tender Times
We cling to a fixed idea of who we are and it cripples us. Nothing and no one is fixed.
Pema Chödrön • The Pocket Pema Chodron (Shambhala Pocket Classics)
But the mask will often also show our real higher-self strengths in distorted or caricatured form. Beneath the love mask is a strong connection with true loving feelings. Beneath the power mask is a genuine desire to be effective and responsible in the world. And beneath the serenity mask is a profound ability to detach from personal melodramas. Th
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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.