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E22 - Dr. Daniel Siegel: The Nature of Self, Identity & Belonging

Know Thyself

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The Endless Loop of Desperation

In contemplative teachings, we teach you about the false way that a self is created in human life. To know thyself is really to take the word self in there and begin to open it up from being a noun to a verb. And then things start to change where instead of uncertainty being something you fear, you realize that the synonym for uncertainty is freedom and possibility. We have an inner self that is a part of our deeply verb-like unfolding emergent identity that we can embrace.

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