Q – The reflection of oneself can be very different from reality. It's like in Plato's myth of the cave: io I see reflections caused by a torch on the wall, but the reality dictated by everything I don't see is very, very different."
The fact that the Ego is an illusion absolutely does not mean that we personally do not exist: of course, when we are incarnated we see reflections, shadows, to quote Plato; but for there to be shadows there must be something that allows the projection ofshadow on the wall, and we know, and you know that there is much more of our Self in us, so much so that in the end the Self turns out to be only a pale partial (and therefore unrealistic) reflection of what we really are .
All this, instead of being a cause of fear, should be a cause of comfort in the moments in which the trials to which existence subjects us see us making mistakes or make us feel inadequate and frustrated by our apparent inability to interact satisfactorily with experience.
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D – I mean I relate to others and to life as I think I am, but if this idea I have of myself is non-existent, not real, then the entire approach to my life also changes radically or not? AND It is increasingly difficult to establish fixed points, half-truths to use as support. Every time I think I have found one, at least three times as many reasons come to mind that make me believe that fixed point is very unstable.
It is inevitable that this is the case, precisely because of that process evolution interior that we know so well thanks to the Guides: most of what seems to us to be true and definitive can only be transitory and relative to understanding and its nuances which little by little structure our feelings.
If this path didn't exist we would live in stability and could never have changes. Without a doubt, this idea can have the effect of making us feel destabilized, but this no longer happens when we manage to accept the reality and individual functionality of this wonderful process, or rather, the certainty that there exists within us a core of absolute stability and balance (our feeling which, let's not forget, is not illusory and is constantly present in us) itself becomes the pivot around which one's existence ends up rotating, this time in a satisfactory and no longer destabilizing way.
D – Little by little coming to the awareness of not being my Self should lead me little by little to detach myself from what I think I am and therefore from the reflection of myself. But how can you detach yourself from what you think you are if all my interactions with the outside and also with the inside of me are based on what I think I am. If we think about it, every time we choose which experience to undertake we do so based on how we think we are...
I'm sure that your question is rhetorical and asked more to stimulate others than to get an answer from me on the matter: you already know the answers I could give you and, for the most part, you have also assimilated them. Let's think about something for a moment: if you didn't know what you know thanks to the Guides, what would become of you?
You probably wouldn't ask yourself these questions but you would live your life following your feelings anyway, often letting your ego take over.
Where is the difference with the way you live now?
Simply in a greater awareness of the diversity of your drives, and this partly benefits you because it allows you to understand more quickly, and therefore suffer less, and partly disadvantages you because it makes you feel inexorably subjected to the apparent tyranny of the mechanisms of evolution of consciousness.
But, upon closer inspection, there is no difference in the two cases as the basis is and still remains that you follow your own feelings. And that's what every individual does, what changes is only the quality of what you are able to be aware of and, sometimes, the way in which you carry on with your life.
Always and in any case, I repeat it, depending on one's own feelings, which remains the only true balance of our way of being and, as Scifo says, the only true real image of what we are. Ombre
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