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Are aware of the space between who you and who you think you are?

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Geoffrey51 8 Apr 15
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A good starting point to achieve true self awareness, is to look at the traits and habits you despise in others and realise they are the traits you despise in yourself projected outward.
This is a first step to being honest with yourself.

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I understand your question. Were you high when you wrote it? Is that why you were thinking about the 'space'?

Space and time coexist and without bodies, you can't measure space or time. I hope this clears it up for you.

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Are ... aware of the space between who you ... and who you think ... ... ? 😃

skado Level 9 Apr 15, 2020
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Overly.
But then sometimes I think the more aware we think we are the more wrong we might actually be

MsAl Level 8 Apr 15, 2020
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I lean toward the idea that our true self is something we all have in common, and that the individual selves are illusions.

Is the little chap at the end you Bill?

@LenHazell53 Yep, that’s me alright. 🙂

Neat little video, and thought provoking.

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It's the form of dissociative identity disorder that we all have. These days I'm pretty amazed when I encounter someone who at least appears to act and be who they really are. The kind of person who doesn't have a very filtered way of interacting with people. I feel like a lot of people would claim someone is "on the spectrum" when the gap is very small.

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I thinks I am who, wherefore, who am i?

Word Level 8 Apr 15, 2020

I think where I am, therefore you are here?

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If I was aware of this gap, wouldn't it disappear?

@Allamanda But one's perception is never reality.

I would assume that to be the ultimate aim, to gain a true and honest awareness of self.
To be who you are not what you think you should be.

@Omnedon No it does not say that you have to know both, just be aware that there is a space between the two. The wording is very exact.

And of course since there is space you can push out into space, thereby getting, who you think you are, nearer to who you truly are, is the point.

@Fernapple, @Omnedon I look at it more like clouds (perhaps of different colors) that can overlap and merge in certain areas and be quite distinct in other areas. As we know, clouds never maintain their shapes.

@Omnedon Yep. And its a hard one, which is why Plato thought it the most worthwhile thing we could do.

It is only in resent years since the deaths of my parents that I have started to reflect on my autism, which my parents kept from me, and how it affected my early life especially, which in turn affects deeply the way I see myself now.

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Always. All of social life and learning is about trying to understand that gap. "Know thy self." Plato.

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