The Importance Of True Self And Life

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When I live a life without honoring my true self, I live my life with a constant unsatisfactory feeling. I have now come to the realization of who I am. I use to be weak to people’s comments or opinions about who I am but I am actually a lighthouse; I enjoy being positive, bright, strong and encouraging others to do the same for their own lives.
I have learned so much about the correlation between true self and life. True self is not just a feeling that you can set aside and act like it does not exist. Life consists of being one and only. With time I have realized that the older I become the more I am weak to others thoughts and being pressured into doing something for the benefit of my falsified self. Although, now that I have came into contact with my true self, which once laid deep inside, oppressed by fear of not being good enough, I want to teach others to search within and pull out to the surface the true self that lies in there. Once it is out it will help develop a life full of real feelings and absolute happiness. True self is the light for life.
My light use to be dimmed out by others, even though it seems like it never has been. Learning the Art behind being who I am, makes me want to show the world that it is something beautiful and necessary. However, once I
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However, it was my first step to power. In the novel, The Law of Transcendence, by American public speaker and author, Deepak Chopra, it says “ The Self has no beginning in time, no ending in time, and no edges in space.” meaning that true self will always be there meaning it is has to searched for. In this novel he explains how superheroes are powerful because they know who they truly are, they are transcendent. “The Law of Transcendence lies at the very core of who superheroes really are, who we truly are.” Showing that true self is more important than we make it out to

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