Why it is much harder nót to be your Self

When your personality begins to reason, he always takes himself as a starting point, and from there on he can easily tell that things do not match his worldview and principles. However, when you really want to question a personality, you will have to take a position outside this principle. You may be familiar with the alternative: your inner Self.

When you are not really separated from other people through your inner Self, when you experience inner Peace and a pleasant awareness, regardless of the outer circumstances, then it is obvious that you have to consciously dó something to forget this. The way in which you do this, is to avoid focusing on who you really are. Your personality has come up with an ingenious basic tool for this: judgment, and the basic assumption that this tool is "true". Thus everything you perceive through applying this tool, automatically can be labeled "true" as well. Judgment guarantees that you will not feel peaceful and pleasant all the time, and the one judgment automatically calls forth the next one, so you continue to use this one tool and this usurps your mental attention for most of the time.

In order to have you feel separated from other people, there has to be an additional interpretation to have you stay with that feeling. In order to be able to uphold this idea, your personality has to come up with issues in other people with which he does not want to be associated. Judgment is a fine tool for this as well. He makes you focus on personality aspects and superficial aspects in others, then rejects at least part of what he perceives this way. Thus he not only makes himself to the only "good" one in your worldview, it also implies that it is reasonable that he cannot be expected to open up to these people that he has rejected.

So: it costs a lot of effort and energy to distract yourself and to continue to forget who you really are. To focus on parts of the total only and to separate them through the process of judgment, interpretation, feeling, getting rid of the feeling, etc.