You Are Not What You Think You Are — The False Self, The Ego, and The True Self

Or, to be free, free yourself from your Self.

I traveled to more than 40 countries, meditated more than 300 hours this year, fell in love, broke up, and work on an uncertain startup business.

In all of these endeavors, I thought a lot about the self.

And how it creates suffering in our lives.

Or in other words, how we create suffering.

Pain and suffering are two completely different experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created. — Noah Levine

A big realization I had during my meditation practices is that we are the creators of our life experiences. It is never the outside situation or person, which is responsible for our mental and emotional state.

It is always our way of reacting to the situation.

We choose to be angry, sad, or to be forgiving, and joyful.

Our self, our sense of I, is the conscious or unconscious dirigent of our thoughts and emotions.

The less aware we are about this, the less in control we are in our lives.