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Fear Is the Preoccupation We Have With Approval of Others
The false self is an identity that starts growing in before we even have the vocabulary to name it. It's fear, not love, motivating each one. I am the middle child of three boys who grew into an adult who frequently struggles with attaching my identity to achievement. The crucial question at the depth of any relationship is what parts of your life have been blocked by fear? How exactly do you self destruct in? What ways have you not been loved? Do you see yourself anywhere in that definit the sociologist alen de batan says, we are all crazy in some way?" "I'll never forget the story of an elderly nun who had served faithfully all her days and then she