If we were to excavate the deepest recesses of our consciousness, we would discover many beliefs about ourselves that are simply not true and that may never have been true. Yet we live from these beliefs as if they were true because we have never identified them clearly enough to question them, to challenge them. Dennis Merritt Jones
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You have to know your self, you have to know what’s good for you and what’s not. You have to work on yourself, do a lot of thinking about yourself, about what is true and what isn’t true. You have to know that you are not the way you think you are.

Source: Your Redefining Moments: Becoming Who You Were Born To Be

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